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Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Finally Ships With Open-Source OpenGL Support (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the heartening-news dept.

An anonymous reader writes: With this month's Raspbian OS update, the Debian-based operating system for the Raspberry Pi ships experimental OpenGL driver support. This driver has been developed over the past two years by a former Intel developer with having a completely open and mainline DRM kernel driver and Mesa Gallium driver to open up the Pi as a replacement to the proprietary GPU driver.

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  1. Can it boot without a blob yet? by jonwil · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can the Raspberry Pi boot without a binary blob or is that still something they have yet to replace?

    I seem to remember one of the big problems for FOSS on the Raspberry Pi was that the hardware video decoder was only unlocked and usable if you paid extra for a special bootloader (which covered the patent license for MPEG etc), I dont know what the status of that is now.