<story><title>RasberryPi release date February 20th</title><url>http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/615</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Wow, looking at the data sheet BroadCom provided has confirmed my worst fears. Comments like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;There are a number of peripherals which are intended to be controlled by the GPU. These are
omitted from this datasheet. Accessing these peripherals from the ARM is not recommended.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is of course no documentation at all for the GPU, if you run Linux on this thing you are at Broadcom&apos;s mercy for &lt;i&gt;maybe&lt;/i&gt; giving you a binary blob which &lt;i&gt;might&lt;/i&gt; run the GPU in an acceptable manner but no promises.&lt;p&gt;This is such a sad state of affairs. Where a chip company refuses to divulge information that is critical to using their chip.&lt;p&gt;Say what you want about the OLPC but like Stallman&apos;s laptop the damn thing had pretty good documentation on all the parts. I guess its finally time for an open source SOC.</text></comment>
<story><title>RasberryPi release date February 20th</title><url>http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/615</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>detst</author><text>&quot;RasberryPi release date February 20th&quot;. No.&lt;p&gt;FTA: &quot;[T]he boards will be finished on February 20. [...] [Y]ou should be able to buy them before the end of the month.&quot;</text></comment>