On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:50:45 +0300
FITHIS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently there is no Open source opencl hardware. I believe that the
> above could be a feasible solution with the help of LLVM community or
> Gallium crowd. The gfx cardd can be developed as a VGA board and have an
> opencl engine.
The development is not the difficult part. Although there are not
many active EEs with that level of knowledge/experience in the OSS
crowd, one is enough and not too difficult to find. And even if you
cannot find anyone, you can "easily" learn enough design know how
and ask others to review your design.
It is more difficult to get a design that is suitable for
high volume production as even many of EEs dont really know
how to do that. But also that is managable, if you have a good
company who is doing the production (they will work together
with you to optimize it).
The realy difficult task is to get the production in a volume that
makes the card cheap enough that mere mortals would buy them.
And that still without having software for it because you will not
get software for a card that the software developers cannot plug
into their PCs. Oh.. and you need a bit of money for that...
Maybe 100k USD or something like that, for a first prototype
run of a couple dozen pieces. And a couple millions for the
series production.
> ZMS05 by ZiiLabs does a similar thing but I believe it is
> not open source friendly or suitable.
Why not? If you can get a datasheet, you can programm it.
You dont need anything more.
> I find the OpenGL target of the
> OpenGraphics a bit outdated (however I WILL BUY ONE :-) ).
The target was to fit it into a Spartan 3XC4000. You dont
have enough real estate to put in every and each of the super
duper new features that are available. Not to mention that
it will take you litteraly years to write that. Even if you
have a large team working _fulltime_ on it.
>I have the
> feeling that OpenGL can be impklemented on top of OpenCL+VGA , but I may
> be wrong.
I think we should move the discussion over to the Open-Hardware mailinglist
as this is becomming OT on the OGP ML.
Attila Kinali
--
If you want to walk fast, walk alone.
If you want to walk far, walk together.
-- African proverb
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