Re:Broadcom Explores Deal to Acquire Chipmaker Qualcomm
by revelation on Friday November 03, 2017 @04:51PM
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Broadcom are employing Eric Anholt to build a fully open source, upstream DRM/Mesa Gallium driver for the VideoCore 4 (https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/) and assorted Raspberry Pi hardware.
Now that's hardly a big focus of Broadcoms business but you can pretty much run a fully open source GPU accelerated Linux userland on the Raspberry Pis with those efforts.
Bluetooth and WiFi is proprietary though, if I remember correctly. And that is what Broadcom makes money with.
Re:Broadcom Explores Deal to Acquire Chipmaker Qualcomm
by ausjke on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:28PM
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RPI is an exception instead of norm. Other than that you got nothing, not just software, you got nothing on its chips either. I avoided Broadcom on all my designs as much as I can.
Now that's hardly a big focus of Broadcoms business but you can pretty much run a fully open source GPU accelerated Linux userland on the Raspberry Pis with those efforts.
Bluetooth and WiFi is proprietary though, if I remember correctly. And that is what Broadcom makes money with.