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<t>Quote from markb on November 17, 2011, 08:31 I would suggest some sort of assembler, it's closest to the actual hardware and can help people understand how computers actualy work - "a very fast idiot" is still a good similarly. I think that might put off more people than it attrac...

<t>In case you don't know, only one non-governmental organisation has EVER put something in orbit. SpaceX. Cost $100Million. There is a competition in full swing at the moment called the N-Prize for orbital attempts. but no-one has won that yet. Or even got close. John Carmack ...

<t>Quote from NRoach44 on November 16, 2011, 09:54 Ah, but the problem (or hole in my understanding is) what do we put in the image? Do we put the kernel and a few pointers to where to get the files from? If the whole OS goes in there, how do files get saved? Surely there is something easier th...

<t>You might be able to transcode, but not I think at 1080p - that requires too much oomph. 720 might be possible, SD more likely. The problem isn't the bitrate but the size of the image. No docs as yet, we are still working to determine what we can get out in time for launch and what wil...

<t>@StuartReid1975 Afraid you are going to have to be a little more clear in your posts - I have no idea what you are getting at! As to performance, as a comparison, the 3D performance of the OpenGL is better than the current gen Wii. Going via emulation will slow things down a...

<t>Quote from WizardOfOZ on November 16, 2011, 18:49 Quote from Burngate on November 16, 2011, 18:09 So we'll need to know the physical address of the gpio? No, we need to know (at least): How many I/O pins there are. Organization/bit ordering of actual I/O pins. ...

On the latest build if it detects HDMI it uses it, otherwise it reverts to RCA. Not both at same time. You probably would not want a multi monitor setup using RCA any way - the image quality isn't that great in comparison to HDMI.

You can have any image you want - it's a compressed file on the root of the SC card. Replace that and you replace your distro.

It doesn't use GRUB btw.

Well, whether you keep Slashdot informed or not, they still see the information and people will still post stories. Not much you can do about that. Or indeed the phalanx of Nobbers who tend to post there.

<t>@Gary Partis Kernel source will be released at the same time as the Raspi. We like to conform to the GPL requirements! 0.01% isn't very many people...which affects what is done and what isn't. We have the concentrate on the whole purpose of the project and not be sidetracked...

Note that the GPU is more powerful than that found in the Nintendo Wii. And there are some pretty good games on that! (Donkey Kong Country Returns rocks!)

<r>[quote]<s>[b]</s>Quote from AlanCox on November 14, 2011, 23:45<e>[/b]</e> Terminology Guide: Dumb framebuffer: The processor does all the display work - each pixel is written by, copied by and updated by the processor. This is how you are seeing Quake running (akin to how ...

<t>Quote from Bacan on November 14, 2011, 20:54 Looks like my multi-tasking preemptive 8051 RTOS is getting dusted off, and ported to the R-Pi. Hey, I used to work on those things. Nice little device, bit slow and lacking in memory (at least the ones I used were). Used PLM51 an...

<t>Quote from partis on November 14, 2011, 20:51 I started this thread as I was unable to source any documentation. If this is truly a project to bring the 80s style computing to the younger generation, then low level access is paramount. Linux based GUIs etc are 10-a-penny. Th...

[quote]Quote from Hammond7372 on November 14, 2011, 22:12

How do you program a Raspberry Pi ?[/quote]

With cheese. Badger cheese.

(Or you can look at the Wiki where there is a list of tested languages)

<r>[quote]<s>[b]</s>Quote from macarelo on November 11, 2011, 19:28<e>[/b]</e> Thanks Jamesh! I\'ve been reading every thread I could find on the GPU, that\'s why I was a bit confused. I remember reading somewhere (can\'t remember where though) that the Quake 3 demo wasn\'t as...

<t>Quote from tufty on November 14, 2011, 16:05 Quote from AlanCox on November 14, 2011, 15:33 The second is the messaging you send it. That's akin to the 'poke this address' interface and the message based documented parts of the AMD APU, the Intel i9xx, the 3Dfx, 3Dlabs, VIA and SiS chip...

<t>Quote from AlanCox on November 14, 2011, 15:33 For the PI to work those messages (at least for the PI specific firmware) need to be open and documented. Without this the PI project will spend the rest of its life having to keep porting its non-free driver and blob to new kernels (we won't ac...

Quote from Josh on November 14, 2011, 04:42
WHAT?!! No Ethernet port. Wireless is damn crap.

Works fine for me. Probably best not to tar all wireless with the same brush.

Quote from st599 on November 14, 2011, 10:49
Can someone provide the command line required to use the on-board GPU acceleration for H.264 decoding?

Thanks

'playerx'

Although I don't think that is going to help much.

<t>People asking for this sort of stuff woefully underestimate the complexity of the device. The GPU is very VERY complicated. The chances of someone (not already employed by Broadcom to work on the chip) being able to write a driver or to fix existing drivers is quite low (not impossible, just very...

<t>The Python excerpt and any 'amazing stuff in only a few lines of code' seem to me to be the wrong approach. It doesn't give the person typing it in the vaguest clue of what is actually going on. As the indentation vs curly braces...Hmm....if you get indentation wrong it goes pear shape...

<t>What Obarthelemy said. There is room for both paid for and free software. I don't think paid for software goes against the Pi ethics at all, and I have no problem with paid for software, on Linux or elsewhere. As mentioned above - people need to pay for a roof over their head. I genera...

Yes, I think that's the only option for that sort of output.

<t>Quote from Jessie on November 12, 2011, 00:04 I just wish I could get a spec sheet for the current processor. It would be nice to know some specifics about the BCM 2835. If this were an ST Micro, TI, or Atmel product we would have spec sheets to help us. I can't even find the BCM 2835 for sa...

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