Re: Official support Odroid hardware and other ARM development boards.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Martin Guy wrote:
>
>> earlier the same day, "Broadcom announced[1] full documentation for
>> the VideoCore IV graphics core, and a complete source release of the
>> graphics stack under a 3-clause BSD license"
>
> Unfortunately that graphics stack seems to include some proprietary
> code that Broadcom might not have had permission to distribute.
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/588950/
ARC. oo that's interesting. if that's the same "ARC" as now owned
by... achhh who is it... not mentor graphics, not cadence... synopsis!
that's them. it's a design that's a lot better than ARM, and has
specialist Video Instruction extensions amongst other things. several
thousand instructions. synopsis' extensions to ARC are *really* good
at this sort of thing, so it would make a lot of sense that it's been
used by broadcom for, duh, video processing.
the significant thing is: ARC has a full gcc toolchain available.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcc-arc/
l.
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