Werner Almesberger wrote: > Christopher Friedt wrote: > >> The 3D is definitely binary, but binary is better than nothing. >> > > Binary is evil, particularly when it reaches into the kernel. For > a kernel developer, the presence of binary kernel modules basically > means that you can't usefully work on that system. >
Ack. Binary is evil - I think in this case I'd rather leave the functionality unused than depend on a binary module. However, there are a number of Linux based projects using omap devices, and it's not impossible that someone will go to the effort of making a compatible GPL 3D driver at some point in the future. I think i saw that the documentation is open for the DSP stuff in the omap, which might help accelerate some tasks - such as video/audio decoding. >> I guess since it's not one of the 'next-gen' SoC's with integrated >> baseband, that there would be the baseband processor, RF modem, and >> whatever other components they need. >> > > Hmm, they were referring to the OMAP per se, comparing it to some > chips from the Samsung 24xx family. But agreed, without further > details, this is all hearsay. > I've been trying to understand what this could be, and if you accept using TI's TPS65950 I can't see a significant difference to the Samsung parts. The TPS65950 does a lot (pmu, otg, audio codecs) so if you needed to use independent parts instead that might get messy. Definitely warrants further investigation in the future though - personally I really like the idea of an omap gta-next... Dave _______________________________________________ gta02-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/gta02-core
