On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Jesse Barker <jesse.bar...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Christian Robottom Reis > <k...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:07:07AM +0300, Ilias Biris wrote: >>> How can we get consistent vendor support to get 3d acceleration working >>> for the Linaro officially supported platforms? If we are targeting last >>> version Ubuntu-based evaluation builds and some of the code we work on >>> (and goes upstream) is going through a transition (like unity/nux have >>> moved on to oneiric now) then we may be unable to provide meaningful >>> releases for the components in question. The real issue we have in GWG >>> is 3d acceleration driver support for the next version of ubuntu - we >>> don't have any at the moment (AFAIK) for oneiric >> >> AIUI this is something which all vendors struggle with, but at least for >> the OMAP4 we should be in reasonably good shape as TI are committed to >> providing the necessary binaries for Oneiric. I raised this with Ricardo >> and he was confident it would be okay, so I'm surprised to still see >> this in the report. > > The point is that we _really_ need to have all of our member hardware > fully enabled. For all of our evaluation builds. This is a huge pain > point for the graphics working group. That's why it is in the report.
I believe a lot of people are trying to make this happen, but most of the time they are blocked by the vendor's legal department, that's why Asac even suggested creating a Legal WG at Connect ;-) > Not everyone involved with Unity/Nux/Compiz has a working pandaboard. > Not everyone working on other projects has a working pandaboard. For > some projects (e.g., cairo-gles), OMAP4 doesn't support all of the > functionality involved, so even a working pandaboard is of limited > use. For the first point I believe we should just make sure a Pandaboard is available for everyone, don't know why this is still not the case. For the second point I don't believe we'll have a common solution, even when we get more boards with 3D drivers available, as each vendor can support a specific range of extensions. I believe working with mesa is probably the way to go here. Cheers, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
