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Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful

Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful

Posted Oct 26, 2012 20:47 UTC (Fri) by gnb (subscriber, #5132)
In reply to: Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful by intgr
Parent article: Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful

The user-space blob on the ARM side is what BCM have open-sorced. The remaining closed component is the GPU firmware which can indeed scribbl over anything it likes since the GPU is in many ways the main processor.


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