Raspberry Pi - 25$ ARM Linux HDMI board

[jwdietrich]

A new forum system has been installed on the PI website.

The two threads mentioned above are now available at the following locations:

• http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/educational-applications/best-first-language-choice?value=Free%20Pascal&type=1&include=1&search=1&ret=all
• http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/free-pascal-compiler-for-the-pi-freepascal-org?value=Lazarus&type=1&include=1&search=1&ret=all

[avra]

Thanks for the links. I hope to see more people participate there...

[jwdietrich]

There are two good news:

The first series of boards is in production, it is expected to be finished on February 20th, see http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/615.

At http://dmkenr5gtnd8f.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf Broadcom has published an abbreviated datasheet of the SoC, this could ease the development of software, including a Lazarus port.

[xinyiman]

Someone managed to get one!? If you managed to turn us over some software written in Lazarus?!

[avra]

10k units sold in just few hours, with limit of just 1 unit per person! Farnel had web site access problems when openings started. RaspberryPi will indeed be bigger then Arduino.

Following the launch of Raspberry Pi Board B this morning, we've seen incredible levels of interest. Our initial stock has—amazingly—already sold out!

http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi

XBMC media center has already been ported and we can watch full 1080p on HDMI:
http://hackaday.com/2012/01/24/raspberry-pi-runs-xbmc-reliably-decodes-1080p

[marcov]

It was already sold out. I'm now waiting till Farnell gets new stock (and see the value of their bundled offerings (with wifi dongles, flash cards etc)). Then I'll get my boss to order one :-)

[BioHazard]

It was already sold out. I'm now waiting till Farnell gets new stock (and see the value of their bundled offerings (with wifi dongles, flash cards etc)). Then I'll get my boss to order one :-)

Cant wait till Raspberry Pi runs Free Pascal compiled code

 

[felipemdc]

What software does it come with?

[DirkS]

What software does it come with?

Euh... none!

But you can download different SD card images: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
See also http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard

Gr.
Dirk.

[BioHazard]

What software does it come with?

In this days they were finishing work on fedora distro named "fedora remix" for raspberry pi

[IndianaJones]

I prefer Debian distribution for arm. I ordered a B model and vey  curious to install a Debian image and ofcourse to install FreePascal/Lazarus onto this platform.
Here is the link for Debian arm distribution.
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/

[avra]

I prefer Debian distribution for arm. I ordered a B model and vey  curious to install a Debian image and ofcourse to install FreePascal/Lazarus onto this platform.
Here is the link for Debian arm distribution.
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/

This is from Wiki:
Ubuntu was initially planned to be the default distribution, but due to issues with newer releases of Ubuntu and the ARM processor used in the Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu cannot commit to support Raspberry Pi at this time.
Eben says (regarding default distribution): "Either Ubuntu or Fedora; the main point in Fedora’s favour is their ongoing support for ARMv6 architectures."
http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions