I think the highest priority in general should be getting the proper drivers written for the GPU on the Freerunner, it seems like such a waste to have it, and not be able to use it.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Mikko Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to, 2008-04-24 kello 19:20 +0800, Carsten Haitzler kirjoitti: > > the graphics chip (glamo) can decode mpeg4 > > itself, but we dont have the time or resources to do this properly > ourselves. > > you are free to do it yourself as we provide all the code, but you would > need to > > reverse-engineer the graphics chip or hope that graphics documentation > can be > > made public. right now you need an NDA to see the docs. > > Righto. Of course, I'll be still buying the phone regardless, but I > would hope OM toss some resources this way _after_ getting the system > otherwise mass-market operational (or yeah, at least get the mpeg > decoding part independently and publicly documented as was alluded to as > a possibility with the glamo anyway). Leaving it totally unsupported in > these conditions would be somewhat downletting. (Again, talking extended > duration here, I don't mind it being unsupported for now.) > > And for my two cents, screw "properly" if it gets too much in the way. A > device node that takes ioctls for geometry and mpeg-4 packets to decode? > If that's what it takes to get the functionality... And hey, any crappy > implementation would at least provide information for Somebody Else to > perhaps make it cleaner. > > -- > Mikko Rauhala - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <URL:http://www.iki.fi/mjr/> > Transhumanist - WTA member - <URL:http://www.transhumanism.org/> > Singularitarian - SIAI supporter - <URL:http://www.singinst.org/> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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