Re: Raspberry Pi GPU Goes Open Source! $10,000 Bounty For Quake 3

Mar 01, 2014 4 Replies

(Added newsgroup comp.sys.raspberry-pi.)




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To quote a different part:


"One of the thorns in the side of the Raspberry Pi crowd has been the closed source GPU. Today that all changes. [Eben Upton] reports that


I didn't think Broadcom were keen to open up more than they already had so this is an interesting and welcome step!


"The Raspberry Pi Foundation is offering $10,000 to the first person to run Quake III at a playable frame rate on Raspberry Pi with open source drivers."


It might be a bit embarrassing is no one can do this....


James

I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere next week someone has some proof of concept, and maybe by the end of the month I can play "The Longest Yard" with my wife [1] :-D.

[1] She actually asked me a few weeks ago if we could play "Quake" (3) again, which we haven't done for years and years.
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:04:39 -0000, "James Harris" Gave us:

bet it would run faster on the cubox

What is the implication for Xbmc? Will the pi be able to decode video more effectively now? I guess at the very least, Milkdrop will improve now!

-Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.

Bet it'd run faster on the Tianhe-2 :-)

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