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Rasperry Pi is not using ARM's Mali GPU, but from what I hear ARM is pretty tight about the documentation for that also. I guess for a company that makes its money only from their IP and nothing else, they want to keep it quite protected. I still wish they were more open, though.


It does make me wonder that the two area's which crop up again and again as open source issues are graphics cards and wireless networking cards and I have to ask myself why. Reason being is that why is it these two area's every time, is it a case of violating IP at low levels or that some area's are open source and they have to gain there edge in speacial tweaks they don't wich to open source. I just don't honestly know but nomatter what if it's about closed source drivers under Linux then it always appears to be about some wireless card or more so, some graphics card.

Anybody know a difinative reason why this is the case?




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