On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Uvindu Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Robert for your understanding. > > I am truly sad the GPU is just sitting there unused. I do not understand > what is stopping us from using a piece of silicon that is begging to be used > for its consummate talent; graphics processing. I sincerely wish you could > tell me why we haven't used it. My instincts tell me that if you do so, it > might piss some people off. Probably TI. But I am definitely taking this to > their forum. > > 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.
Feel free to contact TI directly on this issue. Talking about it here does nothing. > I do not know if Raspberry PI is not using its GPU too. Are all small sized > boards not using the GPU inside them? The PI has an open source mesa driver in development: "vc4" http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/?qt=grep&q=vc4 Sorry, we have "nothing" that can compete with that in ImgTec/PowerVR/SGX land, as ImgTec/PowerVR/SGX just doesn't care. 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.
