> On 24 Jun 2017, at 6:03 AM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Mike Leimon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Honestly, I think that working together with people who are openly >> developing a GPU design and who would probably be quite welcoming >> of assistance from Luc would be a much better situation for him than if >> he went back to trying to working on the lima driver. Perhaps a company >> like si-five ( https://www.sifive.com/ ) or the risc-v organization might >> even consider trying to sponsor a collaboration like this as having a good >> open GPU implementation would certainly be a boon to them in the future. >> >> Anyhow, that is my two cents. > > That is a really good idea and luke had mentioned it multiple times in > the past but keep in mind that gpus are an extreme patent minefield > these days. Heck, intel can't solve some problems like memory > compression on their gpus. But maybe someone should propose this to > sifive or the risc v foundation. Something like a Berkeley sponsored > program would be really interesting. >
Please excuse my ignorance in such matters but would it be possible to use a RISC-V or FPGA chip as an interim eGPU until such time that a more specialised chip can be developed and released? I appreciate that RISC-V/FPGA chips are not likely to be well-suited to the task of GPU processing but perhaps they would be better than no GPU at all. Once a specialised libre GPU has been developed, the RISC-V / FPGA chips could be repurposed as a CPU for other projects/computers/laptops/etc. and, hence, ensuring that they don't go to waste. - Bluey _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
