I think it would be wise for the next iteration of the beaglebone, if there is one. That beagelbone.org uses a GPU that has open source drivers. Personally, for the most part. I could care less in the average everyday embedded type situation. But there has been times I've thought about making a mini MAME console, or the like; And we just can not do that with the beagelbone black.
So, I'd have to use an rPI, ODROID, etc. When I really would not want to. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Przemek Klosowski < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Uvindu Silva <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I believe the BBB can get much much faster if we could use the GPU. I >> am a >> > beginer but I guess that is a logical statement as unnecessary CPU load >> is >> > reduced. >> >> > Just so that we are all on the same page, it would be neat if we could > offload graphics processing (and maybe other types of processing) to the > GPU. This is actually a trend now in x86 world, with both AMD, Nvidia and > Intel making multiple cores available for graphics and general processing, > Larabee style. > > Unfortunately, in the ARM world the GPUs tend to be more proprietary. On > BBB, the PowerVR SGX530 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard#cite_note-32> GPU was licensed > by TI from Imagination Tech, apparently under some sort of NDA that > prevents TI from publishing the details of this hardware. TI's only allowed > to release a binary driver, that iwould require creating its own > infrastructure to work on BBB, and there's not enough interest in keeping > up that work. What people would be interested in would be an open source > driver, but IT and TI will not release information required for that, so > there is no progress. > > If you are interested in changing that, you could try to convince TI/IT to > release information, and/or reverse engineer their driver. > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
