Sent too early doh. But yeah the foundation is under NDA with broadcom, it actually was a big issue in the free software community along with the proprietary video. The video has been fixed but not the cpu.
-- Jason Barbier | E: jab...@serversave.us GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) On Sat, Apr 30, 2016, at 07:10 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > Hmm, you mean documentation from ARM or from Broadcom? There seems to > be a ton of stuff at http://infocenter.arm.com but the URL's funky or > blocked by my ISP. I can go there in Lynx from my devio.us account > but I'm a little out of practice with Lynx. I was seeing tables of > contents in documents, but I wanted a PDF or ten. Try > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.set.cortexa/index.html > as an example. > > The Cortex family of processors made Wikipedia: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A who says the amount of > documentation is daunting. > > The Pi's probably unique in being manufactured by essentially a > non-profit organization. https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/ The > forums at https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/ seem pretty good. I > don't know if they have any non-disclosure agreements with Broadcom or > not. The foundation seems mostly academically oriented, I would think > they'd cooperate with any open source organization. > > -- > Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX >
