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I've paused the idea of the synth because my main server has died and r-pi is taking the broadcast-cbeebies-podcasts-over-fm strain and cups printing side. I even got it set up as an AirPrint server so I can print right from my iPhone.
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Model B is now being upgraded to 512 mb. All new shipped models will have this much memory.
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Not that good for everyone. We only just got ours last week from an order placed back in June.IronGiant wrote:Nice one.
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Nice. I just hope the distros don't start bloating up to fill the new RAM capacity, rendering the 256s useless. (I suppose even if they do we always have earlier versions)
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model A is going to be staying at 256, so there's life in the old dog yet.
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Firefox wrote:Does the USB work on the new ones, then?
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Not sure that gives you a lot. Most of the important code for the display is in Vidcore, it's not just a GPU but a full CPU as well.Baggypants wrote:BAM
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Probably not for Linux, but for other OSes it's a good thing.gravy wrote:Not sure that gives you a lot. Most of the important code for the display is in Vidcore, it's not just a GPU but a full CPU as well.Baggypants wrote:BAM
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If you're not using Linux, it gives you an awful lot. Basically, it puts all other OSs on a level footing with Linux as far as GPU access is concerned.gravy wrote:Not sure that gives you a lot. Most of the important code for the display is in Vidcore, it's not just a GPU but a full CPU as well.Baggypants wrote:BAM
There's been a lot of whining about how this is all somehow a "lie", how it's not a full set of drivers (it is, it's just that the GPU access is designed around a high level API rather than a low level one, which, given the anaemic processing power of the Pi's ARM is probably a good thing), including a notable "do you know who I /AM/? respec mah AUTHORITEH!" level of twattishness from Luc Verhaegen. Most amusing.
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I side with Luc. The reply he got was ridiculously patronising, and clearly aimed at somebody with only superficial technical understanding rather than somebody for whom that information was never a mystery in the first place.
It seems to me the big problem with "open source" is that "the community" isn't altogether clear on what they want from it.
If you want to be able to audit it to make a secure platform out of it then this is worthless (OpenBSD is completely ruled out as a beneficiary); or if you want to debug things without fear of black-box interference, then no, that's not happening either. At some level these are problems with any bus-master peripheral, but there's a long and complicated debate to be had about relative complexity before a line can be drawn.
If you just want to hack or customise then there hasn't been much change, because the new layers you can now manipulate aren't any different from the old ones. If you want to learn how things work (I vaguely recall talk about education -- what was that about?), this obviously won't help.
Porting to another OS using a development team with no reverse-engineering talent is probably the only benefit, but I'm not so sure how many of the whiners care about anything other than Linux.
As was pointed out with I-don't-know-what-kind-of-irony, to become FSF endorsed they simply need to lock the platform down harder and move the outstanding blob to user-inaccessible ROM. What kind of endorsement policy is that? What makes their endorsement mean anything, and what does it guarantee to a consumer to acquire a such-and-such-endorsed product?
Before anybody can be criticised for being ungrateful or whining about nothing, you really need to know what it is they want and why they want it. A good starting point would be for them to know.
It seems to me the big problem with "open source" is that "the community" isn't altogether clear on what they want from it.
If you want to be able to audit it to make a secure platform out of it then this is worthless (OpenBSD is completely ruled out as a beneficiary); or if you want to debug things without fear of black-box interference, then no, that's not happening either. At some level these are problems with any bus-master peripheral, but there's a long and complicated debate to be had about relative complexity before a line can be drawn.
If you just want to hack or customise then there hasn't been much change, because the new layers you can now manipulate aren't any different from the old ones. If you want to learn how things work (I vaguely recall talk about education -- what was that about?), this obviously won't help.
Porting to another OS using a development team with no reverse-engineering talent is probably the only benefit, but I'm not so sure how many of the whiners care about anything other than Linux.
As was pointed out with I-don't-know-what-kind-of-irony, to become FSF endorsed they simply need to lock the platform down harder and move the outstanding blob to user-inaccessible ROM. What kind of endorsement policy is that? What makes their endorsement mean anything, and what does it guarantee to a consumer to acquire a such-and-such-endorsed product?
Before anybody can be criticised for being ungrateful or whining about nothing, you really need to know what it is they want and why they want it. A good starting point would be for them to know.
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It's no different from using a hard drive for which you don't have the firmware source and toolchain.
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It's more like having a hard drive hard wired to read / write FAT only even though you know it can do so much more.
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Go on, then. What is this "it" factor which is invariant between using a hard drive and using a GPU driver? Are you asserting that everybody should be concerned with only that factor and none other?venusian wrote:It's no different from using a hard drive for which you don't have the firmware source and toolchain.