VC5 Gallium3D: A New Broadcom Open-Source Driver

[Namenlos]

What about open video compression formats and codecs?
VP8, VP9 or even Theora?

Theora is dead, VP8/VP9 are not not that relevant for Broadcomm as they would only be needed for Youtube and the future, with the former probably switching to AV1 in a few years. It is mainly a set top box soc.

[andrei_me]

Theora is dead, [...] switching to AV1

Yep, I asked about Daala and got the same answer, everything is converging to AV1, the same as Opus

[boxie]

If this chip is 28nm it is unlikely to be the SoC for the next RPi.

The RPi is produced on very tight budget, an SoC with many more features need more transistors which needs more wafer area which is the cost driver for chips like this.

If it was a 14nm or 10nm or even made on some of the latest FDSOI processes that are coming out then you would have a lower cost/transistor and hence be able to have a more capable SoC for the RPi for the same cost.

I think this is why it was said recently that SoC development for the RPi had hit a wall and the RPi 4 would take a couple years to come out.

another point, RPi does have scale on its side. when they start the manufacturing run for the RPi4 they will have 000,000's of boards in the run - that will squeeze a lot of $/board value out as well.

It certainly would be a win for the STB dev's to have the same hardwre/support as the RPi

[LoveRPi]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/librecomputer/libre-computer-board-next-gen-4k-sbc-dev-board-for

Pretty much a next generation Pi without the proprietary Broadcom stuff.

[Nille]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-dev-board-for
Pretty much a next generation Pi without the proprietary Broadcom stuff.

I see they use a Mali GPU, so there is nothing libre. that is the same garbage like the others

[Grawp]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-dev-board-for
Pretty much a next generation Pi without the proprietary Broadcom stuff.

Nothing libre about it with Mali...

[starshipeleven]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-dev-board-for
Pretty much a next generation Pi without the proprietary Broadcom stuff.

with proprietary Amlogic and ARM stuff.

[sykobee]

Well this does look promising as a future Pi route, if the existing family of chips is not getting developed further. 28nm is a very cheap process now, so the price might be reasonable, especially if it integrates a bit more onto the die like Ethernet and more USB, amongst others. Maybe there will be a $45 Raspberry Pi Pro in 2018 if we're lucky, otherwise 2019.

[M@yeulC]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-dev-board-for
Pretty much a next generation Pi without the proprietary Broadcom stuff.

And with all the proprietary Mali stuff. I'm sorry, but no, thanks

This card was already talked about; "Libre" here is used somewhat liberally.

[chimpy]

Just to throw out another soc:

https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-media-board-computer

Haven't really seen how this Rockchip 3328 performs though