Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:03 -0400, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote: >> This might be the opinion of a completely non educated end user but it >> seems that an intel specific drm and other bits (xorg, mesa) would be >> somewhat of a maintenance waste. >> >> TI-OMAP 3xxx and a couple of other arm processors use similar SGX-5xx >> graphics cores. IIRC arm is often little endian so perhaps a unified >> driver would be easier in the long term. > > Long term a unified driver would be very nice to have and nobody > disagrees with that. Things don't happen overnight and you have to take > smaller steps to get there. This proposal is one step on a road that may > lead to a driver for the TI part too. It will need someone in the ARM > community to step up and write the ARM specific bits.
Nokia's written and open-sourced some related code for DRM. My university is paying me to work on an ARM-based SoC handheld with an SGX core, and I might be more into this later. (Y'know, once the device is actually out the door.) ~ C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
