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Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by Nursie on Thursday October 25, 2012 @10:33AM (#4697776)
A more apt analogy would be "Was old I was getting a pony but got a small plastic model of a mule".

Pi made a huge song and dance about this yesterday, nobody can fault their media savvy, but in the end they didn't really release much.

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Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by jws on Thursday October 25, 2012 @10:43AM (#4697807)
I'm still happy. It wanders a bit from topic, but I eventually gave away stacks of Broadcom based WRTSL54GS wifi routers because their closed source driver was stuck at linux 2.4 and I needed 2.6 for some attached hardware. That went on for years. Having everything that runs on the host CPU open means things like this can't happen. Much better than a plastic mule.

Even further afield… When my first daughter was 3 or 4 we got her a magic wand for her birthday. A plastic star on the end of a plastic stick. She was thrilled, pointed it at her grandmother and said "I turn you into a bug!". She was crushed when it didn't work. Rather spoiled the whole day for her. She assures us she was going to turn her back.

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Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by andrewflnr on Thursday October 25, 2012 @08:50PM (#4700339)
The bit about your daughter keeps cracking me up. That that would be the first thing she would try... Thanks.
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Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by tisme on Thursday October 25, 2012 @09:41PM (#4700460)
> She assures us she was going to turn her back.

She did. It all happened so quickly you didn't notice!

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Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by Nursie on Thursday October 25, 2012 @11:10AM (#4697907)
True, BUT, it doesn't look there was really very much to it anyway, so while I wouldn't be jumping up and down cursing at them over this, I'd hardly call it an impressive achievement either.
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