On 2/24/08, PcgScrapAddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Tim, > > I view "dependable" video being the "holy grail" for Linux which is why > I want to volunteer my services to your project. I am most interested in > helping/providing working Linux drivers. However, I do have a fairly > diverse background and believe I can help in other areas if time permits.
Thank you for joining us! > > Before diving in I do have a couple questions. Please be patient as I > have tried to digest as much of the posted material to obtain answers > but feel the need to obtain fairly concrete answers to those listed below. > > If my reading is correct you are currently using the Xilinx & Lattice > FPGAs. You state the free tools you must use are only for Windows > (emulated with WINE) with the Linux tools being expensive. Is the goal > (or one of) of this project to create your own FPGA and supporting tools > for use in *nix that come free of charge with the purchase of your FPGA? I think you can get free tools for Linux now, although there are some challenges with synthesizing for the large Xilinx part using free tools. > Do you intend to create/enable a graphics chipset that mainboard > manufacturers can integrate on their boards? This is one of our primary goals in terms of making a GPU for high-end embedded systems. > What sort of weekly time commitment are you hoping for? Whatever you can spare, whenever you want. No demands are made here. People just latch on to something interesting, and work on it or look for some high-priority loose end and work on that. > That's enough Q&A to start with, please advise what steps are next. We're also trying to move forward on a hardware IDE that will help us with designing hardware pipelines. And we have a number of loose ends to tie up with the hardware, mostly hooking everything up and getting it to where simulations can be run. (At this point, this is just very basic logic to exercise OGD1's memory and video hardware.) -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
