Lots of interesting conversation here on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10162101
I confess I don't know all the details but fundamentally, there are limited arm resources and I suspect OpenBSD doesn't have time for people who want to play games with their code, given that other boards (e.g., beagle) are more open. OpenBSD has limited resources, the arm crew even less, and the have to spend those hours as wisely as possible. I think if the RPi was completely open, it would have been supported long ago. You can run Free and Net on it, btw. On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Jason Barbier <jab...@serversave.us> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org
