Gooseberry Board

From	Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Gooseberry Board
Date	2012-07-09 13:53 +0700
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<86wr2d5sst.fsf@gray.siamics.net> (permalink)
References	<jsh949$kfm$2@speranza.aioe.org>

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>>>>> Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> writes:

	[Cross-posting to news:comp.os.linux.hardware.]

 > Gooseberry Board http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/

[...]

 > Has anyone tested this toy?  If you did, how was your experience?

	My primary concern with both Raspberry Pi and Gooseberry is
	their reliance on HDMI, which is known for its DRM-friendly
	features, though Raspberry Pi also supports composite video,
	while Gooseberry is claimed to support LVDS.

	Raspberry Pi go as far as to label VGA as "end of life
	technology" [1] (though I understand that the D-sub connector is
	probably way too bulky to be used on such a small board), while
	it's still widely used, and is pretty much the only widespread
	"open" serial video standard.  (FWIW, many 17" displays are
	still VGA-only.)

	Another issue is that both boards' GPU's are not yet well
	supported by free software, though Gooseberry is seemingly
	closer to have proper free software support:

--cut: http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=108 --
    [...] A Mali 400 GPU is also shipped with the board which is
    expected to have open source driver support in the near future (see
    http://limadriver.org/).
--cut: http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=108 --

[1] http://raspberrypi.org/faqs

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