Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi userland is now open

2012-10-25 Thread Richard Miller
In practical terms this doesn't make a lot of difference for Plan 9 as it is now. Dev/draw makes use of only a few simple 2d operations for accelerated graphics, and the dma engine on the raspberry pi SoC provides a 2d memory-to-memory mode which should be sufficient to do these on the ARM

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi userland is now open

2012-10-25 Thread Charles Forsyth
I don't see any problem with having to talk to invisible firmware. Surely that's normal for devices with firmware? In this case, it seems even better for Plan 9, because the OpenGL/ES engine is in the firmware, so we don't need to write or port one, just talk to an existing one. It's similar

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi userland is now open

2012-10-24 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Good ! 2012/10/24 Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com Hi all, For those working on Plan9 for the Pi, userland is now completely open source: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221 I need more Pi =D Best regards, -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca / Github more Atomic

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi userland is now open

2012-10-24 Thread sl
From: Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org Sender: owner-m...@openbsd.org http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221 Well, they are lying to everyone. Their open source is nothing but a layer of code which calls into a closed source back-end.

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi userland is now open

2012-10-24 Thread Nicolas Bercher
Le 24/10/2012 20:03, s...@9front.org a écrit : From: Theo de Raadtdera...@cvs.openbsd.org Sender: owner-m...@openbsd.org http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221 Well, they are lying to everyone. Their open source is nothing but a layer of code which calls into a closed source back-end.

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi userland is now open

2012-10-24 Thread cinap_lenrek
term% theo Come on.. stop making assumptions. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi userland is now open

2012-10-24 Thread BS
its true, if you read the forum fully... On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:49 PM, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: term% theo Come on.. stop making assumptions. -- cinap