Search found 9 matches
- Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:41 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: UK Government: Children to be taught programming
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17959
Re: UK Government: Children to be taught programming
<t>Back on the topic of programming in schools, it was GCSE DT that allowed me to do real programming - a very open systems and control course that was basically "design and make something".<br/> <br/> I used to play percussion in a school orchestra, which often involved minutes of doing nothing bef...
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:07 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Open/Closed Drivers - Ebens Answer from Maker Faire
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1397
Re: Open/Closed Drivers - Ebens Answer from Maker Faire
<t>So it's possible that actually everything run on the ARM will be open if Eben manages to convince Broadcom to make the userland GL stuff open. I'd love that to happen so I could play with some alt-os stuff with hardware 3D, but I think people should wait and see how successful Eben's efforts to o...
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:55 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Open/Closed Drivers - Ebens Answer from Maker Faire
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1397
Re: Open/Closed Drivers - Ebens Answer from Maker Faire
<t>All the threads on the "openness" of drivers quickly turn into a religious war, and it's hard to find real information. Having just watched the video from Maker Faire, Eben provided a nice answer in the Q&A section and the real situation is a lot better than I think many realise.<br/> <br/> H...
- Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:28 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: UK Government: Children to be taught programming
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17959
Re: UK Government: Children to be taught programming
<t>Great news. I'm just coming to the end of a PhD at the Engineering Department at Cambridge, and was a "demonstrator" for the undergrad programming courses. The students are given a tutorial-type guide to work through and demonstrators wander around helping with problems. It was astounding the ran...
- Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:58 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: ARM 11
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2822
Re: ARM 11
<t>I've just come across that chip in another thread - if we're talking BeagleBoard-type pricing then that's too much. For another $10 I'd definitely consider it worth it. I fully support the choices made for the A/B devices though, but I hope it's not too many years before something similar but A9-...
- Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:41 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: ARM 11
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2822
Re: ARM 11
<t>From Gert's recent Q and A I see you managed to add the ARM 11 to a Videocore in a month with a small team (great work btw). I remember reading the ARM is very much a minority of the chip area too...so perhaps a similar job could add a Cortex (have to say A9 now, with NEON please...) without too ...
- Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:26 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Framebuffer for other OSes?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1784
Re: Framebuffer for other OSes?
<t>I've read the long SoC thread, but I think that got a bit derailed, so I'm going to ask in this one instead.<br/> <br/> I believe the Videocore architecture is a bit different in that the Videocore does all the GL state tracking and stuff that would usually be done in the host OS driver (or by Ga...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:07 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Framebuffer for other OSes?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1784
Re: Framebuffer for other OSes?
<t>Awesome, thanks for the reply.<br/> <br/> There's a thread on the Haiku mailing list about R-pi currently (how I discovered you yesterday), and it sounds like there is plenty of work other than graphics that would be needed - timers, interrupt controllers, etc, but I assume all of the source for ...
- Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:14 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Framebuffer for other OSes?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1784
Re: Framebuffer for other OSes?
<t>Hi all,<br/> <br/> First off I think this is a great project. I'll definitely be buying a board.<br/> <br/> I've read around and I realise that R-Pi isn't really aimed at people wanting a hardware platform to hack about on, but I'd be interested in looking at getting something non-linux running (...