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Isn't broadcom the worst part of the rpi? It's impossible to boot the pi without loading a binary blob backdoor first
by SilverRed 5y ago
Isn't broadcom the worst part of the rpi? It's impossible to boot the pi without loading a binary blob backdoor first
- dannyw 5y agoHow about the fact that Broadcom essentially enabled the Pi to be created in the first place?
- userbinator 5y agoBroadcom is neither the first nor only company making SoCs. The RPi people just happened to have someone working there.
- imwillofficial 5y agoNobody said any of those things. The Rpi is good. Broadcom makes it.
- IntelMiner 5y agoBroadcom "enabled" the Pi to be created because the SoC for the original RPi 1 was a flop. They wanted to use it for Set Top Box (Cable TV, Google TV etc) devices but couldn't find any buyers One of the engineers who worked on it worked out a deal with Broadcom to simply reuse the design and market it toward education instead
- StreamBright 5y agoAnd it boots with the GPU which is not 3D accelerated in version 4 because the whole project was done by one person who just left. This is one of most popular SBCs out there. I wish it was a bit better.
- skohan 5y agoAre there any high performance single-board computers on the market currently? I use a lot of Rpi's in personal projects, and I've been thinking about a home file server in a super small form-factor. What I would like is an SBC somewhere on the size scale of a smartphone, with performance in the range of a current flagship phone. Does something like this exist?
- StreamBright 5y agoThis is exactly what I want too. What comes close is the Pine64 Pro.