Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim

Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by fusiongyro on Thursday October 25, 2012 @01:50PM (#4698628)

I think it stretches the imagination to argue that OpenGL itself is implemented in FPGAs on the chip. Not that it's impossible, but is it likely, and on a $25 device?

No, the outrage here is not because of this practice, it's because this is being claimed as a victory. The distasteful PR move. Few are surprised or particularly offended by what Broadcom did here.

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Re:Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim by noselasd on Thursday October 25, 2012 @02:44PM (#4698905)

Well, I didn't claim that the videocore was a fpga, it's likely some form of gpu/cpu - It's not implemented on anything running in the kernel or on the arm core though. fpga or something else, the concepts are rather the same seen from the main CPU running an operating system.

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