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Given Broadcom's connections to the project, it's almost a surprise they didn't have some kind of Broadcom option for WiFi/BT earlier. Must have stung at Broadc

• skykooler 11y ago
  It'll be interesting, given the state of Broadcom wifi drivers on linux.
• tdicola 11y ago
  There is an official Raspberry Pi foundation wifi dongle that uses a Broadcom wifi chip with full support in the kernel. For a time it was the only dongle that worked with Windows 10 IoT on the Pi. Can see it here: https://www.adafruit.com/products/2638 https://www.adafruit.com/products/2638
  • mrpippy 11y ago
    Ah interesting, thanks!
• peteforde 11y ago
  Broadcom's "connection" to the project often seems circumstantial, like the Pi project is a blip on nobody's radar. Several of their engineers used to work at Broadcom and they've been under NDA lock and key, bending over backwards to help people progress on things that they can't officially talk about by leaving the least subtle clues ever so that they can move the process forward. The GPU/camera integration in particularly is really painful - people have gone to insane ends to reverse engineer how it's working so that they can access features that aren't documented. As a heavy Pi+camera user (I use 70 at a time every time we ship a unit) I appreciate the efforts of all these folks so much.
  • yuhong 11y ago
    I think even the founder Eben Upton works at Broadcom too.
  • Ezhik 11y ago
    >bending over backwards to help people progress on things that they can't officially talk about by leaving the least subtle clues ever so that they can move the process forward That sounds pretty interesting, where can I read more about it?
    • peteforde 11y ago
      If you hang out in the camera board and read a certain kind of post - generally people trying to get the camera to do stuff it's not easily able to do - you see guys like 6by9 and jamesh doing their best to help without getting in trouble. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=47798&hilit=broadcom+nda https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=4779... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=133953&p=892748&hilit=broadcom+nda https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=133... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=109137&hilit=broadcom+nda https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1091...
• vdfs 11y ago
  Looks like it's using a broadcom WiFi & Bluetooth chip: http://i.imgur.com/exuZy58.jpg http://i.imgur.com/exuZy58.jpg