Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced 155
An anonymous reader writes "The Raspberry Pi finally saw a release on February 29 this year and is thought to have sold 200,000 units, with a million expected to ship before the year is over. That's a lot of tiny PCs, but it's also been an opportunity for owners to feedback any problems or tweaks they'd like made to the board. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has taken the feedback on board and today announced a revised design is being put into production. The new Raspberry Pi, known as revision 2.0 PCB, is expected to start shipping in the next few weeks. The revision includes a number of changes, but is essentially the same board. To summarize it includes a new reset circuit, a replacement for the reset fuses allowing for more reliable USB hub power, two GPIO pin changes for JTAG debug support, four redundant GPIO signals have been removed, and a new connector has been added for attaching a range of boards including a clock or audio codec. Two of the more easily noticeable changes include a fix that stops the HDMI connection interfering with certain operations of the Raspberry Pi, and the addition of two 2.5mm mounting holes to allow for easier mounting."
Re:What about development tools? (Score:1, Insightful)
Can you use this with Visual Studio? As I just love the newest VS.
I think your question should read: "Can Visual Studio work with open source compilers and tool chains dedicated to ARM via plugins or simple modification?"
The day we start altering our hardware to work with an IDE is the day I go home and put a bullet in my head.
Re:And also it's now made in the UK (Score:5, Insightful)
In Wales by Sony to be exact
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1925 [raspberrypi.org]
Nice! That would have been a far more interesting headline than "RasPi gets mounting holes and minor bugfixes".
It's not truly open... (Score:5, Insightful)
My problem with the Raspberry Pi is that it's not truly open - there's a binary bootloader and graphics driver, and the SoC is undocumented. If I wanted to write my own operating system from bootloader to windowing system, I'd have to do a lot of reverse engineering. That's kinda why I'd prefer the Beagle Board.
(Disasbuse me of this notion if I am wrong.)
Re:It's not truly open... (Score:5, Insightful)
Bare metal programming is possible though, and the system is fairly open.
Re:What about development tools? (Score:1, Insightful)
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