[clue] [RaspBerry Pi ] A report

Grant Johnson grant at amadensor.com
Wed Mar 7 07:13:03 MST 2012


Any language that has a compiler for arm v6 on linux will work. Additionally any application written in c should be fine. Anything with assembly will take quite a bit more porting effort. Debian is already there, so you could start with their package list for arm to get a pretty good feel for it.
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ed <ezedtheamerican at gmail.com> wrote:

I may have something to add of interest to this project, but I need to
know what language is used to program these devices.
It is my understanding c works for this purpose.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:23 PM, YES NOPE9 <yes at nope9.com> wrote:
> I have been following the adventures of RBPI closely.
> I have been officially designated as a RBPI troll ( by RBPI ) since I have asked them so many probing questions.
> About 10 prototypes have been delivered for prices ranging up to $3000 on eBay.
> There are other prototypes floating around.
> No one has told me they have received a *production* board yet.  I have asked a lot of people.
> The RBPI folks do not respond to my questions about what they are actually shipping.  I have asked them many times.
> There are rumours of 1,000,000 requests for the $35 RBPI board.
> There are stories that a "soccer stadium" rush to order boards last Wednesday ( Feb 29 ) crashed some websites.
> There is a rumour that the original 10K boards were to be made in China and the effort failed.
> Now it may be that RS and Farnell are authorized to produce boards.
>
> During the last 4 months I have been wondering how Broadcom views this adventure.  They have never before released chips to a small manufacturer.  How will they feel if creative types modify the RBPI board and start making things in volume that Broadcom did not expect ?  What happens if Broadcom's OEM customers complain ?
>
> The concept is great .... now to see the execution
>
> Gus
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