On 10/25/13, 11:44 AM, "Robert Nelson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Michael Mullin <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Is the 3.2 kernel SGX driver open source and simply too complex for the >> voluntary community to port to 3.8+ in their spare time (In which case >>we >> could start a kickstarter or something to fund someone to work full >>time on >> this bug)? Or is the driver proprietary, and the community is simply >>at the >> mercy of TI? > >Only the kernel "shim" is open source, well it also uses the in-kernel >framebuffer driver to draw directly into.. > >To give you an idea of what we are dealing with, take a look at this: >https://github.com/RobertCNelson/ti-sdk-pvr > >I try to copy the gpl bits from every sdk release, that a bunch of us >can more easily patch the bits to later kernel releases's. > >In the case of the bone.. The 3.2 bits use the old frame buffer >driver, and with 3.8/3.12 we are using the brand new and shiny kms >driver.. Hey Robert, Here is some interesting info given that [1] shows that SGX is working over KMS on the OMAP5 and the GLSDK [2] used is based on Linux Kernel v3.8. [1] http://tigraphics.blogspot.in/2013/08/qt5-with-kms-omap5-jacinto6.html [2] http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OMAP5_GLSDK_6.01_Release_Notes [3] http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/23545 Regards, John > >Regards, > >-- >Robert Nelson >http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > >-- >For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"BeagleBoard" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
