Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread David Harris
Or maybe this for $60 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11712 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU GPU: OpenGL ES2.0, OpenVG 1.1 Mali 400 core 1GB DRAM Onboard Storage: 2GB Flash, microSD card (TF) slot for up to 32GB Arduino-Style Peripheral Headers (Adapter Needed for Shield Form-Factor) HDMI Video Output

Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:40 PM, David Girle davidgi...@gmail.com wrote: Given the interest the Raspberry Pi is enjoying in education, the new platform coming out of TI towards the end of April, might be an interesting target for any fonc experiments runnable on ARM.

Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread Loup Vaillant-David
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 07:23:50PM +0100, Gath-Gealaich wrote: Is this going to require another dose of proprietary binary blobs? With Pi, you at least have to prospect of being able to compile your graphics stuff from Nile into something that actually uses the graphics hardware the way it's

Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Loup Vaillant-David l...@loup-vaillant.frwrote: Err, what did you mean exactly? Could Nile use hardware graphics on the rPi? Why (not)? My current understanding is that to do this, we would have to interface with the rPi's firmware blob, effectively