Unless some one has an ARM Lic. perhaps either OpenRISC or OpenSPARC would be a better starting place. While I do like the momentum of ARM the price of admission might be prohibitive.
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:04 PM, "Ing. Daniel Rozsnyó" <[email protected]>wrote: > These integrated GPU's are not available without the processor. And you > will have very hard time, to find one which has PCIe (and that would be > pcie host not device). > > Putting a SoC on a PCIe card has no real benefit. You are probably trapped > in a recursion - and if you get again to the surface, you has to > acknowledge that you can do your work on the SoC itself. No need to put it > into another system. > > Daniel > > > > On 12/07/2012 10:00 PM, Gregory Carter wrote: > >> Well, what about the Mali GPU work being done right now? >> >> http://www.malideveloper.com/**developer-resources/drivers/** >> open-source-mali-gpus-linux-**kernel-device-drivers.php<http://www.malideveloper.com/developer-resources/drivers/open-source-mali-gpus-linux-kernel-device-drivers.php> >> >> >> Seems like the source code is available, and at least one Linux desktop >> at the moment is up on OpenGL ES, which might be a little more realistic >> than a Ivy Bridge setup on a card. (Which people have written to me >> that that is not really practical. Although they haven't spelled out >> the specifics. :-) >> >> OpenGL ES is supported by KDE 4.10 right now, or at least I think Kwin >> builds and runs fine on it completely accelerated last time I looked. >> >> Maybe a little Mali coprocessor to start would be a better idea to >> getting a card out quickly to get a revenue stream for funding a open >> architecture. >> >> -gc >> >> On 12/07/2012 02:06 AM, Dieter BSD wrote: >> >>> So how much interest is there in my idea of a graphics card >>>>> with a framebuffer and a socket to optionally add the future gpu? >>>>> Can we build one with existing off the shelf parts (that have >>>>> datasheets)? >>>>> >>>> Daniel writes: >>> >>>> I am interested, but my target is to pack it into a mini-pcie embedded >>>> design, however I can live with the fact that it can be prototyped as a >>>> standard PCIe card. >>>> >>> They make adapters to plug mini-pcie cards into PCIe slots. >>> >>> 1) Is a mini-pcie card large enough? >>> >>> 2) If we go mini-pcie, how do we handle the connections to the displays? >>> >>> One idea I had awhile back was rather than have the OGP GPU chip >>> plug into a socket, put it on a mini-pcie card and then plug that >>> into the PCIe framebuffer card. >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Open-graphics mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.duskglow.com/**mailman/listinfo/open-graphics<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<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<http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics> > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) >
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