On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:57 PM, John Darrington <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:41:25AM +0100, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > > For instance, the most widely used GPU on these devices (powervr) > doesn't have a Free Software driver yet. And it's unlikely to have one > unless it is reverse engineered. This is a huge and painful task ahead. > > GNU has overcome huge and painful tasks before. How can we start doing > something about that? What needs to be done to reverse engineer the beast?
http://elinux.org/Create_Open_Source_PowerVR_GPU_driver however, ironically, despite it being very common, it's been recognised in the industry that powervr is a complete dog. so despite it still being used in x86 embedded CPUs (menlow etc.) it's slowly dropping from favour, and is being superceded by MALI. which is yet _another_ proprietary GPU engine. btw yes these engines qualify as "System Libraries" under GNU GPL Exemption clauses, so it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. l.
