April 2016
Beginner
174 pages
3h 46m
English
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Chapter 3. Configuring Extra Features
There are some extra features on the Broadcom chip that can be used out of the box or activated using extra licenses that can be purchased. Many of these features are undocumented, and are found by developers or hobbyists working on various projects for Raspberry Pi.
In this chapter, you will learn how to keep Raspberry Pi up to date and also how to use the extra features of the GPU.
Updating Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi essentially has three software layers: the closed source GPU boot process, the boot loader (also known as the firmware), and the operating system. At the time of writing book, we cannot update the GPU code. But maybe, one day, Broadcom or hardware hackers will tell us how do to this.
This leaves ...