All code on Raspberry Pi’s ARM chip now open source

"The makers of the Raspberry Pi credit card-sized computer today announced every last piece of code running on the computer’s ARM chip has been open sourced. While the computer could already run several Linux-based operating systems, not all the drivers were open source. Going fully open source prevents users from having to use drivers that are proprietary or reverse-engineered, and it should make it easier to create new Raspberry Pi-targeted OS ports." -- source: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/all-code-on-raspberry-... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

Now this is interesting. Might almost be first linux OS to be quite so, guess it makes it easier when OS is hardware specific. On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 16:37 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"The makers of the Raspberry Pi credit card-sized computer today announced every last piece of code running on the computer’s ARM chip has been open sourced. While the computer could already run several Linux-based operating systems, not all the drivers were open source. Going fully open source prevents users from having to use drivers that are proprietary or reverse-engineered, and it should make it easier to create new Raspberry Pi-targeted OS ports."
-- source: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/all-code-on-raspberry-...
Cheers, Peter
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