Hardware Reference
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Summary
This brings us to the end of talking about all the aspects of the Raspberry Pi's hardware. We started our journey with
looking at every input and output and there are a lot of them: you won't run out of ideas and projects anytime soon.
I then talked about the heart and brains of the Raspberry Pi and how amazing it is that you get such a sheer
amount of processing power for such a small and cheap device. I then guided you though the features and
configuration options for the VideoCore GPU, which prompted me to then talk about the boot order since it's directly
tied to the GPU of all things.
Lastly I spoke about any currently unusable connectors and interfaces and missing hardware. This section may
come off sounding a little harsh but it's not intended to be: for the price you are paying, the Raspberry Pi is an amazing
piece of hardware. I waited for more than three weeks for mine and each day I would check my inbox to see if it had
shipped out. You would think that living in Hong Kong I would get it a little quicker but that was not the case.
You've most likely noticed that there is a lot of detail in this chapter and that's just my love for hardware
shining though. Don't get too caught up in all the details of how everything works. I really want you to enjoy the
hardware; if you find that reading more about the hardware is something you enjoy be sure to check out the ARMv6
reference manual and the Broadcom BCM2835 web documents (unfortunately, the latter are a bit lacking in useful
information).
Enough of the details! Let's do something with the Raspberry Pi. So we'll kick off with something useful and get
Fedora installed.
 
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