[SGVLUG] Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Now Opensource

[James McDuffie]

More details and analysis at the link below, such as the fact that driver mostly just forwards calls to the videocore firmware which are still closed source binary blobs. 
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Raspberry-Pi-opens-its-ARM-graphics-code-1735262.html

James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:

>Good news everyone, Broadcom has open sourced their GPU driver for the
>one that's on the Raspberry Pi. This will hopefully lead to an
>optimized X driver! 
>http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221
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