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Not quite yet. We're hoping to be able to provide a minimum-functionality blobless world fairly soon.
by ebenupton 13y ago
Not quite yet. We're hoping to be able to provide a minimum-functionality blobless world fairly soon.
- MrZongle2 13y agoI think this is another example of how Raspberry Pi Foundation's decision not to move forward with a gazillion different boards, but rather to stick with A and B and let the software evolve, was a good one. I'm very excited to see what the next year brings.
- simcop2387 13y agoYea with this happening I think what I would love is a bit more cpu power on the pi. Not even the new 64bit arm cores or anything but an A-15 or A-9 at double the MHz of the existing PI would put it in a huge sweetspot for embedded performance and make it far more usable for a desktop (with ideally more ram too but that's always good).
- cbhl 13y agoIt sounds like you really want a TI Pandaboard or maybe even one of the Intel SoCs...
- polshaw 13y agoTo be fair, the Pi opened the floodgates in terms of ARM boards; there are now loads of them.. not $25 but nothing like the insane pre-pi prices. The beaglebone black from TI is a good step up: 1Ghz A8 (~2x rPi performance), 1GB ram, $45. They don't really need to segment themselves (yet), as others can fill in the gaps.
- dublinben 13y agoDifferent development boards (like the Beaglebone Black) are already more open, but get much less attention. The Raspberry Pi has an enormous amount of mindshare, but they've been doing a pretty poor job until now of shifting the status quo of this industry.
- polshaw 13y agoAre you able to give any indication what might be included (or not) in such minimum functionality?
- ebenupton 13y agoThe ability to boot a kernel with USB (and thus Ethernet) running. Probably not display in the first instance (we're hella-resource-constrained), but we'd want to add that later on.