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Update: Raspberry Pi-Compatible Development Board Cancelled

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 31, 2014 @05:00AM from the not-so-fast dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Anyone who might have been interested in the miniature Raspberry Pi compatible board mentioned here a month ago should know the board has been cancelled due to problems sourcing the Broadcom SoC. Given the less than welcoming response from the rpi community to the board's release, there is speculation as to why Hardkernel is having trouble buying the chip.

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Broadcom won't release documentation ever by Anonymous Coward · 2014-08-31 05:23 · Score: 5, Interesting

I used to work at Sun Microsystems and had to deal with Broadcom chips in the servers. In order to get access to Hardware Reference Manuals, I almost was compelled to sign away rights to my 1st *and* 2nd born. Broadcom does not want anyone to be able to write drivers to their hardware ever, unless you pay them a huge royalty.