Raspberry Pi Roadmap

Raspberry Pi is launching towards the end of 2011. There is the opportunity to produce a polished RISC OS distribution for it, which will potentially have a large audience. Before release, there are a number of areas of RISC OS that need attention. Further discussion can be found in this forum thread

See also ideas for the disc image.

Essential, Important

Core OS/ROM image

• USB driver
• SD card driver (forum thread )
• Partition support/ability to find FileCore partition on SD card
• CMOS RAM
• RTC or sensible time/date/timezone setup when RTC missing
• Audio driver
• USB CD driver
• Nicer default toolsprites/backdrop/etc
• Tidy builtin applications
• Accelerated !Boot

Disc image

• Popular RISC OS apps ready configured
• Programming tools
• Educational software
• Online help
• Package manager/‘App store’ for advertising further software downloads?
• !Configure in Apps that runs !Boot [done]

Materials

• User documentation/videos/etc
• Programming guides
• OS documentation
• Non-RISC OS software/guides (eg how to use RPCEmu, GCCSDK)

Process control

• Check RISC OS licensing
• Check licences of bundled software
• Software compatibility testing
• QA/release testing
• Application source code collection (for that which is available)