[snip] > >>In your estimation, what would it take to build a prototype with > >>decent shader support for something like OpenGL 4.2 support? > >I'd like to see this too. I'm debating cashing out part of my 401k > >so I can spend a couple of months full time working on this. > > > >Would you be willing to put up some cash (or equivalent engineering > >time) to make this happen? I think this could be a great crowdfunding > >project, but its going to take lots of people to put in time and/or > >money. > My company builds communications and virtualization services for > companies using KVM/LINUX. > > I do not have the engineering expertise to work on something like > this, other than if you had a piece of hardware I could write the > kernel driver and DRI parts to make it work in X. MESA components > might be a learning curve there for me as I do not know much about > MESA.
Let me get you thinking about something then. Let's say we put an InfiniBand card in your KVM host machine. Now we design a board using the OpenShader and the Infiniband FPGA code ( https://bitbucket.org/carter00/infiniband-fpga ), so that the board has a couple of ports: * power * infiniband * DVI/HDMI * USB This board becomes your 'dumb terminal' that connects to the KVM/Linux host, and you have the right X/DRI driver magic in KVM, the X libs, and the kernel to do RDMA-pass-thru all the way to the userland application running in KVM. (If you don't like InfiniBand, you can just do s/Infiniband/Data Center Ethernet/ if you like) For additionally sillyness, integrate x2go.org code into the fpga, either as hardware, or running on a cpu core. Begin Patent troll bait ----> [IP NOTICE: this design concept is released under a GPLv3/AGPL/Open Hardware license, and the IP is also available under alternative licenses for commercial implementation for a fee] <---- End Patent troll bait _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
