The famous saying "but will it play crysis?", might have to change to "but will it play Left 4 Dead 2?" :) Gabe and company are doing some cool things. An open SoC with decent graphics might do quite well. NanoITX perhaps?
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Gregory Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I think you are right as it would be more of a Rube Goldberg machine > than a graphics card. > > :-) > > Incidentally, demand for graphics in general is quietly making large steps > on Linux: > > http://steamcommunity.com/**games/221410/announcements/** > detail/1749910796493493022<http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1749910796493493022> > > So demand is continuing to go up, not down for decent graphics on a LINUX > box in the 3D fully accelerated category that doesn't suck. > > -gc > > > > On 12/07/2012 03:04 PM, "Ing. Daniel Rozsnyó" 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) >> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > 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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