HAL_BCM2835 gone from GitLab?

Earlier today, “Recent changes in GitLab” on the front page had an item about adding support for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+. I rushed out a change to the “Raspberry Pi Port” wiki page, only to discover on subsequent checking that the HAL_BCM2835 component has completely disappeared from GitLab.

Did they change their mind about the CM3+ and I’ve caught them mid-revert? Or has something else happened on the GitLab server?

(Serves me right for jumping the gun in any case. First rule of product announcements: don’t say anything until you’ve got the product in your sweaty palms…)

The HAL_BCM2835 component does seem to have gone missing from public view. Chances are it’s just been made private temporarily while they sort out a licensing issue or similar.

Chances are it’s just been made private temporarily while they sort out a licensing issue or similar.

Given past history, chances are better that the Pi guys are soon(ish) going to announce the Pi4 or another incarnation of the Compute module, or maybe a ZeroW2…and support is being added to RISC OS so it’s ready to run on the new device right away.

Not really sure where they can go with the Pi other than adding more memory (2GiB?) or bumping up the clock speed. I mean, the Pi3 is a quad core ARMv8 (32/64) with WiFi and Bluetooth onboard. So where can the Pi go while still being a Pi? I mean, proper Gigabit would be nice, as would multiple USB outputs so the four ports and network aren’t shared through the one single USB interface. Maybe SATA? But would it be a Pi with all that?

That’s my €0,02.

Edit: Pi Compute Module 3+, as mentioned in the top post. ;-)

<facepalm>

Just wanted to look up a document in the source, and… yeah… GitLab doesn’t do a lot with NetSurf.
Nice.

I think I mentioned that on another thread. And you don’t often agree with me!

But hey! I just logged-in like in the old days and it worked (Netsurf)! No deleting cookies or nuffink!

Has something changed for the better?

And you don’t often agree with me!

I’m sure justifiably – I don’t have your intellect or your technical skills!

But I often have an opinion!

OK – that should have been an “n” dash, but turned out as an “m” dash. What’s the solution?

Whoops! Please delete post forever – I don’t have the right, despite being the author and copyright holder!

Bored, John? :-)

You might be the author and copyright holder, but it’s pretty much implied that you are relinquishing copyright by writing something on a public forum – the entire thing wouldn’t work otherwise.
Plus, you haven’t specified which post you’d like deleted. The “OK” one? The “Whoops!” one? Both?

The solution, by the way, is not to get precious about dash widths. Textile converts a minus symbol – into a wider dash. Things get more fun if you have two minus dashes in a sentence…
If you must, try Alt+153 for a dash like this ‘−’, Alt+151 for this ‘–’, and Alt+152 for a slab like ‘—’ (thus suggesting Textile is using an n-dash).

Fairly obviously the one which _ what’s the word – looked in Pluto for precise word, but couldn’t find it in panic!
This one – the one where I edited to Whoops! Dvae will understand!

Dvae

Of course I meant Dave H – our saviour!

How dare you spook me like this!

j

If you look underneath the little sideways blue/white G icon beside your name, you should see a link that says “Edit post”. That’ll let you go back and fix typos.
I use it quite a lot, because when writing out a message on a phone with swipe-type, what I wanted to write and what the phone thinks I wanted to write aren’t always the same thing.
Sometimes not even remotely close. ;-)

Here’s one where I dictated the content of the article and let Google figure out what I meant : https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20110602

what I wanted to write and what the phone thinks I wanted to write aren’t always the same thing.
Sometimes not even remotely close. ;-)

My standard label for the auto predictive text is auto-bollox.

I think that sums it up, on first use.
I will say though the if you’re prepared to fight the system for long enough then eventually it seems to have learned the correct words and phrases.
Presumably the normal low standard is a reflection of the level of the normal/average user: “like” “know what I mean, like” “an’ Tiffnaay sez”

Given past history, chances are better that the Pi guys are soon(ish) going to announce the Pi4 or another incarnation of the Compute module, or maybe a ZeroW2…and support is being added to RISC OS so it’s ready to run on the new device right away.

Edit: Pi Compute Module 3+, as mentioned in the top post. ;-)

Except the CM3+ has been available since January so there’s not really any reason to hide it now. Curious…

The HAL_BCM2835 component is still hidden on GitLab, but a new “Beta RPi ROM” build has appeared on the Downloads page. A quick string search of the ROM reveals the text “Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+”.

The plot thickens…

For what it’s worth, that string appears in the mixed.RiscOS.Sources.HAL.BCM2835.s.GPIO file.

The change means that the GPIO module, SPI enumeration and SDIO should now all work on the compute module 3+.

I see that it’s showing up in Recent Changes again (along with a PCCardFS tweak which inexplicably has a PhotoCD for its GitLab icon).

It’s gone again!

Sounds like that’s just a glitch in the “recent changes” list this time, since the code is still there in gitlab

Sounds like that’s just a glitch

Damn. There goes a perfectly good conspiracy theory.

Rick wrote:

Given past history, chances are better that the Pi guys are soon(ish) going to announce the Pi4

Well predicted Rick! The Pi4 is released today! https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/

Any chance of next week’s Lottery numbers too?

Cool – in my head I was still thinking that was going to be around a year away.

This new Pi has a core than will run 32-bit code? VERY cool! 4GB RAM & 4K screen at a decent refresh rate in RISCOS? & USB3 & fast ethernet? Want!

Certainly can run 32bit code.