It isn't like there aren't several embedded GPUs on the market right now. But my objective is to crowd-source the design space exploration, as well as get contributions from researchers and borrow ideas from the vast trove of research literature on the subject.
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Xiaohan Ma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Terry > > Yes as far as I know, google has the plan to develop open source or its own > mobile gpu. However, vp8 rtl decoder is still far away from gpu design. We > have still room to accomplish our goal. > > Thanks > Xiaohan > > On May 28, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Terry Hancock <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Terry Hancock wrote: >>>> I'm working on a "liberated alternative to blu-ray" >>> >>> .. >>> >>>> create inexpensive hardware players for Lib-Ray. >>> >>> .. >>> >>>> "Raspberry Pi" >>> >>> Please note that the rpi hardware is pretty much as closed as is >>> possible for an embedded board that runs Linux. >> >> Quite so. Another reason why it might be kind of cool if there were an >> alternative. >> >>> Since you need high performance graphics there may not be an existing >>> solution. You would only have access to really open hardware once the >>> power-efficient GPU that open-graphics will design has been >>> productized. >> >> Well, "open hardware" can mean more than one thing (more than one level). It >> could just mean an open PCB for an existing chipset. Not as exciting as a >> fully-open processor, but it'd be something. >> >> I understand however that Google did release a core for a VP8 hardware >> decoder >> -- presumably that could be part of an open GPU in the future. >> >> Cheers, >> Terry >> _______________________________________________ >> Open-graphics mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics >> List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) -- 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)
