somebody (leinir) on irc suggested you could maybe hire http://www.tungstengraphics.com (<leinir> Tungsten Graphics being the people behind gallium3d of course) although I don't know how much openmoko is willing to spend on it
y On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob, > Glamo is not a forbidden topic. > > Openmoko actually has learnt a lot from this. First we have learnt to > not trust high-level promises as much as before. > In fact I would go as far as saying that going forward, we will not > trust any promises about 'we will open this up later' anymore. > Either it's open and documented at the time we make the decision to > use those chips, or we look elsewhere. > I believe that's what our customers want. > > We have a long way to go to come out with kick-ass open phone > hardware, but if our community doesn't loose faith and continues to do > development together with us, we'll get there. The momentum we have > built with the Freerunner is awesome. Please continue to buy > Freerunners and to develop for it, same is happening internally. The > next phones will build on top of the free platform we have built > together, the technology investment will carry over. > > Having said that, if someone wants to seriously develop for the glamo, > please get in touch with me and we will find a legally correct way to > extend the smedia documentation to you. > In fact we have done that in a few cases before already, but I'm not > sure how much actual codes have come out of that. I think very > little ;-) > So we need some really serious coders that don't mind a tough challenge. > > Best Regards, > Wolfgang > > On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Jacob Peterson wrote: > >> Sorry to drag this old, over discussed topic up again. However, I >> am concerned that if action is not taken soon then all GTA02 owners >> will be left without any real chance to ever get anything in the way >> of OpenGL support. So I ask the question, what is Openmoko's >> position on writing an OpenGL driver for the Glamo chip or at least >> aiding developers with some form of documentation? >> >> I have read speculation that it may be possible to do something such >> as rewrite the documents to get around the NDA. Since it seems >> rather clear that SMedia has no intention to release the documents >> to anyone else under NDA, it is solely up to Openmoko to write the >> driver or at least aid any community members with the ability to >> write such a driver. >> >> Hopefully there is something that can be done, or better yet, >> something is currently being done on this. >> >> Regards, >> Jacob >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community