<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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-...

<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 ...

<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...

<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 ...

<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 (...