Broadcom has the source code of the BCM2835-soc released. The BCM2835, ARM-soc which has a graphics core with OpenGL support and hd video acceleration, and is used in the Raspberry Pi.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is responding delighted on the decision of Broadcom and argues that the mini-computer the privilege to the ARM-soc with multimedia capabilities to run fully functional open-source drivers can be provided. Also, would Broadcom the first manufacturer that all of the code for the control of its mobile soc, under an open source license, and has published.
Broadcom has the so-called VideoCore code in the userland repository of Raspberry Pi on GitHub posted. This is equipped with a so called 3-Clause BSD license. With the code the according to the Raspberry Pi Foundation for developers considerably easier to make full use of the hardwareversnellingsmogelijkheden on the BCM2835-soc. These are useful, for example, for the inclusion of GLES/VG-support in X.org but it can also be used for the Wayland-displayserver, which this week is the first stable version came out, to use in Linux projects. Furthermore, would the porting of various opensourcebesturingssystemen considerably simpler.
