Quoting Paul Boddie (2016-10-27 22:24:20) > Cutting the GTA04 list because it isn't directly relevant, although I'm not > really sure of the relevance here anyway... > > On Thursday 27. October 2016 19.43.27 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > > > Now back to the topic of FLOSS. This driver is of > > course free. But it will need / load firmware binaries > > into the GPU part of the SoC. These binaries are > > on one hand some "microkernel" running on the SGX > > GPU and the ARM libraries for OpenGL etc. > > It was interesting to finally get hold of a programming manual for a > completely different SoC - the Ingenic JZ4780 - which is also burdened with a > PowerVR implementation (SGX540). Unfortunately, there are no details of how > the 3D functionality of the GPU is accessed, in contrast to all the register > descriptions for that SoC's 2D functionality (X2D). > > Given what was said about the Broadcom SoC used in the Raspberry Pi, the > claims of "fully free" drivers and yet the continued presence of a non-free > microkernel, I can easily imagine the SGX functionality being rather > similarly > structured, regardless of the larger SoC being ARM-based (like the DM3730) or > MIPS-based (like the JZ4780). > > > So thats it for today. And I hope I can bring some > > news about the GTA04A5 tomorrow. > > I hope it will be good news! > > Paul > > P.S. You mentioned another phone concept on the list a while back that was to > use one of the AM series of TI SoCs. Are there any more details on this yet? > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > http://www.tinkerphones.org
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