Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Loup Vaillant-David wrote: > 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 compiling Nile > into us

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'

Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:40 PM, David Girle 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. > > *http://beagleboard.org/unzipped/ > > > *

Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread David Harris
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