[HN Gopher] "New" old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)
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       "New" old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)
        
       Author : rcarmo
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2021-12-04 11:42 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | dtparr wrote:
       | I might suggest linking to the original post from the RPi folks
       | directly rather than the re-hash blog post.
       | 
       | https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-old-functionality-with-...
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Ok, we've changed to that from
         | https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-launches-legacy-
         | op.... Thanks!
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | michaelt wrote:
       | _> Hardware acceleration of Chromium takes a significant amount
       | of support time; for every release we have to re-port our
       | hardware interfaces._
       | 
       | Does anyone know why this is?
       | 
       | I'd have assumed Chromium would use stable interfaces like
       | opengl/vaapi, and once rpi had a stable implementation of that
       | interface they'd be good forever?
        
         | MisterTea wrote:
         | The BCM on the pi is not open source friendly and some drivers
         | are reverse engineered with some bits needing binary blobs.
         | Honestly it's not a great SoC and originally started life as an
         | EoL'd set top box chip if I'm not mistaken. I mean it boots
         | from the GPU because booting from the CPU was not secure enough
         | for cable companies or whatever vampires they intended to sell
         | to. That's just one of the goofy quirks.
        
       | StillBored wrote:
       | The big question is why the rpi foundation doesn't just provide
       | enough upstream functionality to use an off the shelf distro at
       | this point. The landscape has changed significantly since they
       | started WRT arm distro's. At this point pretty much every single
       | one has an aarch64 port that could be used on rpi3+ level
       | machines. There are even 3rd party project attempting to make it
       | work across OS's (https://github.com/pftf/). Instead of having
       | people building yet another linux fork, why not join the
       | community?
        
         | flatiron wrote:
         | That's a question for Broadcom. Those SoCs going upstream is
         | always an issue and not because people don't want them. It's
         | just a blob mess.
        
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