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This repository contains pre-compiled binaries of the current Raspberry Pi kernel and modules, userspace libraries, and bootloader/GPU firmware.

22 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 21 comments · first 2014-01-14 · latest 2024-12-03

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  1. …pi 4 has NUMA? The same NUMA thing large servers with 1Tb of RAM have? It looks like it does https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1854#issuecom...
    comment by agilob · 2024-12-03 · in Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning
  2. …never get lower than 6-8 seconds. There is a lengthy EEPROM issue thread about that for the Pi4: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1375
    comment by dividuum · 2024-09-15 · in How to optimize boot time in user space on a Raspberry Pi 4 / Boot2Qt
  3. …Pi foundation could address because Broadcom didn't release the documentation for like 5 years. [0] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/19 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40701297
    comment by paulmd · 2024-07-28 · in Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts
  4. …broadcom's closed documentation/blobs, they were the only ones who could see the info to fix it). https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/19 On top of that, people forget about the non-micro-SD card slot. The fullsize slot just let…
    comment by paulmd · 2024-06-17 · in The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
  5. But oddly enough, they don't support some screen resolutions: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1202#issuecom...
    comment by ShadowBanThis01 · 2023-09-29 · in Raspberry Pi 5
  6. …/sys not /proc previously: > # for i in /sys/class/leds/*; do echo 0 > "$i/brightness"; done [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1742
    comment by Fnoord · 2023-09-28 · in Raspberry Pi 5
  7. …basically uses USB as a system bus so potentially more or less everything was affected... https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/19 A huge number of the use-cases that people were excited about ended up being "low-power device to…
    comment by paulmd · 2021-12-17 · in Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021
  8. …US and much of the world[1]. The issue is that there are still active patents in Malaysia[2]. [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/939 [2] https://bryanquigley.com/pages/mpeg2-patent-tracker.html
    comment by Paul-ish · 2020-11-03 · in eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”
  9. …of the AP, but clients will notice a disconnect. There are also issues with the firmware blob (see https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1403 ) in AP mode that haven't been solved yet.
    comment by basilfx · 2020-08-23 · in Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W
  10. …in the hello_pi directory that were incredibly useful in understanding how everything worked. (see https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/opt/vc/s... ). Right now the forum and maybe the firmware issue tracker is the only…
    comment by dividuum · 2019-09-30 · in Show HN: Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support
  11. …[3] https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1088472549715918848 [4] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/LIC...
    comment by itdaniher · 2019-01-28 · in New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+
  12. …process from working 100% reliable. Do you have any experience with network booting the RPi? [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/764
    comment by dividuum · 2018-11-25 · in Strato Pi – An Industrial Raspberry Pi
  13. …driver together for, though: * https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/s... * https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/wiki * https://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi/tree/master/video01
    comment by deaddodo · 2018-09-30 · in Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
  14. …onerous license that won't allow you to use the Rpi software if you build your own broadcom board. https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/LIC...
    comment by tyingq · 2018-09-18 · in A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor
  15. Raspberry PI can do 240p over composite now: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/683 The reasons portrayed in the article are exactly why I prefer this setup over RGB.
    comment by starquake · 2017-03-07 · in Transparency effects in SNES and Genesis games via composite video artifacts
  16. …even get their system bus to be stable? https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5249 https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/19 https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/9 You know what I would do if I was running an…
    comment by paulmd · 2017-01-14 · in Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi
  17. …are only available for 32 bit kernel? EDIT: looks like aarch64 support is still not available: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/550
    comment by annnnd · 2016-10-19 · in Raspberry Pi (2 and 3) support in Fedora 25 Beta
  18. …-y upgrade`, the kernel is currently v4.1.13 [1], and the rest of your comment is also FUD. [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/ker...
    comment by rdancer · 2015-11-26 · in Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
  19. …be fine saying "use your existing boot card, just drop in our kernel", or "go grab these files from https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot when formatting the sd-card."?
    comment by LukeShu · 2015-09-03 · in Raspberry Pi 2 Model B on OpenBSD
  20. …version from yesterday (commit 369d99df38de4c33b648ac864dd42e185461b477) has a size of 2708.504 kB: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/369d99df38de4c3... All the blobs are in https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boo…
    comment by wolfgke · 2015-07-23 · in The $9 CHIP Computer Reveals Its Open Source Details
  21. …[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16317623/how-does-raspber... [3] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
    comment by krasin · 2014-01-14 · in Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential