I think the consensus is a Video Card to start, coded and test in
Verilog and then off to fabrication.
Obviously once the Video card is done, a SoC gaming machine could be a
viable next step for the organization though, maybe partnering with
Google/Android.
(I mean creating demand for your own product is a good thing.)
Can you imagine how cost effective it would be to write a game once and
literally run it anywhere with a single Video stack/open standard to
drive it all? The gaming industry would experience a orgasm similar to
the internet when it realized a free OS kernel was available that could
scale to just about any size and power it all.
Official Open-graphics gaming console for Android Games/Steam Games.
As for the Audio card, and the state of Linux audio....
One EPIC story at a time please.
This is like the Lord of the Rings, Video is Book One, Audio is Book
Two, AMD/Nvidia and the fall of Microsoft Mordor Direct X all seeing eye
book Three.
:-)
-gc
On 12/08/2012 12:06 AM, gary sheppard wrote:
Just to be clear are we talking about a Video Card or a SoC? I am certainly
with you in the linux desktop being ripe. Follow the money trail...well
that money trail is getting more and more interesting these days.
As for why? Nvidia // ATI // Intel ...are intimidating! You see the likes
of S3 and others come and die quickly and you think..."no way in ...".
Personally I know you guys can do this. And _NOW_ is the time. There really
is a window of opportunity opened and waiting. The thing is, it needs to
happen sooner rather than later due to several factors.
-- AMD might just fail... if they do will ATI survive?
-- Intel is making waves in Linux Land and actually making progress in the
GPU area...
-- Nvidia... now here is a wildcard.
-- Valve and Steam...the Source Engine. Linux needs to prove to Gabe there
is money to be made, his profile added to linux land has already caused
things to begin happening. If business turns out to be not so good....
Damned Binary Blobs are going to be BAD JuJu for us here!
Ok now off topic a bit... We really also need a GOOD Linux Audio Card...if
this card could be of Audio Phile / Pro quality... I think you would find a
significant audience. Gaming too is a must of course :)
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Gregory Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
Quite honestly if I started writing Verilog code I would kill the project.
The GPU would be a laughing stock, and probably work just as well as AMD's
or Nvidia's.
You don't want that do you? :-)
Now, once the card is done, and you want drivers for X or DRI kernel work
done that is a different story. I have 15 years dealing with LINUX kernel
issues, and making it work for business and industry.
Just to be clear, I sell and build engineering workstations for AT&T
contractors. I almost lost the business trying to do it with binary blobs
from AMD or Nvidia.
If it wasn't for the AMD/Mesa work I probably wouldn't have a company as
the first time I tried to use that binary garbage Nvidia and AMD was
pushing in a professional setting I got yelled and screamed at. I was
taking a huge risk by not using Windows for a 35 person work crew/office.
Thank god the AMD open source drivers had enough oompf to get the job done
and in a very stable environment. The possibilities of controlling that
much of the hardware and software in a graphics card I think would
revolutionize the Linux Desktop which is a ripe untapped market world wide
of incredible possibilities.
Quite frankly I am really puzzled given my own business why this hasn't
happened years ago?
But from my perspective an open hardware/open source graphics stack is
something my customers not only need, but I don't think the LINUX desktop
will be a reality until we get that GPU.
-gc
On 12/07/2012 07:25 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Le 2012-12-08 02:18, Gregory Carter a écrit :
What do you guys think?
your dreams sound like an amazing idea,
now you just need to ...
get to work and code the GPU :-)
-gc
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