Thank you Robert for your time. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/NhiiScKy7eU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
