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On Oct 24, 2012, at 09:38 , Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 24 October 2012 04:23, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> Hello,
>> The rpi foundation just posted this up.
>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221
>=20
> Ok, so the GPU is still the big binary blob, but the userland graphics
> chunk is now not a binary blob. Cool.
>=20
Yes, this is, I hope, in part due to my talking to them when I was in =
Cambridge.
At least they sent me a direct email about it as well.  We should see
how to get this stuff in, as there are lots of great things we can do,
and people we can get working on FreeBSD, if we have this in place.

Best,
George