On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:42 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 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.
or/and convince TI to move to Viviante for the 3d core. (the omap4/5 am57xx already have Vavante's 2d core..) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vivante-Etnaviv-DRM-Driver Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://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/d/optout.
