On 01/25/2011 07:16 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > the proposal is therefore to not hang about: begin to reverse-engineer > the "top" GPU, PowerVR, which is present in at least 75% of the > top-of-the-range ARM embedded CPUs.
Luke, I appreciate the proposal, and have a couple of items of feedback. 1) The desirability of an open source driver for PowerVR is recognized within the industry. This was discussed at both Embedded Linux summits that were held last fall (in Tokyo and Cambridge). The companies represented decided that one action we would take was an educational and licensing pressure one, from multiple SOC consumers. 2) The undertaking you describe is indeed massive, and is fraught with difficult issues, as you point out. It might be outside the scope of what we can fund. However, having said the above I'll try to whip up a wiki page for the proposal, and we'll at least give it some discussion. -- Tim P.S. The list is about to go down for maintenance. Sorry about the timing. It has been planned for a while, and it hits at a bad time when this discussion is going on. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment ============================= _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tree.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
