I guess it could even prevent car gps-navigation because displaying the map + speed and using text2speech would probable give some problems
There just hast to be someone in the community that can persuade them to give him/her the docs... Openmoko could give some employees of smedia a FreeRunner :) On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Alex Kavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andy Green wrote, On 05/08/08 11:05: >> Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> >> | sluggish and should be adequate given the task at hand. What is the deal >> | with Glamo? Do we have - or will we ever have - meaningful graphics >> | acceleration for the Freerunner, given that this Glamo appears to be >> | handicapped by a bus that is not only slow to start with, but also >> shared? >> >> We didn't get to the end of meddling with the Glamo yet, but what we got >> is what we got so far. The biggest handicap by far for that chip is we >> can't share the documentation. >> >> If we could, I bet there are people who would jump in and do stuff like >> use one of the OpenRisc CPUs that are on the die to do all kinds of >> effects in local Glamo memory. There is quite a bit of firepower in >> there we don't have resources to get working internally that can help >> hide the weakness of the external bus interface. > That kind of sucks doesn't it. That there is a processor on the chip > that could do, say, scrolling independently of the main processor and we > aren't allowed to know how to do it. I'm sure it's a great chip, but if > we can't drive it in interesting ways: > > a) it means that Glamo doesn't look very good. > b) developers will think that Glamo isn't very good and will ask for > something else. > > Does this scenario work well for S Media? > -- > Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
