[sdiy] is raspberry pi the future?

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 15 Mar 2013, at 14:59, Neil Johnson <neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Tom,
> 
>>> I have learned since yesterday....the rasp pi is not truly open source..i guess some elements are closed.
>> 
>> Where did you see this, Dan? And which bits are closed source?
>> 
>> That seems to totally undermine the whole point of it, in my view.
> 
> The firmware for the GPU is closed-source.  Everything on the ARM is
> open-source.  If you feel that "...undermine the whole point of it..."
> then I'm sure you'll find all you want to know on the Raspberry Pi
> forums.
> 
> Neil

Thanks Neil, that's what I needed to know. I guess if you regard it as a component, it doesn't matter if it's closed source or not. Just put one in your box and go.

I suppose that for what Dan wants to do - develop on it, then design a stripped-down board with just the bits he wants - he could simply use some similar ARM chip and leave out the GPU?

Tom