> Honestly, it really could go either way imo. A SoC / APU or a straight up > Video Card. There is a market for both.
Our resources are limited. If we remain focused on "just" a GPU (as if that weren't a big enough project) we will see results sooner. A SoC/APU requires a CPU, MMU, FPU, ICU, SATA, Ethernet, etc. in addition to the GPU and it all needs to work correctly, and given mask costs it better work correctly the first time. We'll need a board for the chip either way. Luke is working on building a FLOSS-friendly SoC, and it sounds interesting. > The bad news is, Intel really is moving into the Linux Video Stack > in a way that threatens that opportunity. AMD/ATI started releasing docs for their GPUs back in Sep 2007. I figured it would take them 6 months to 3 years to finish documenting everything. More than 5 years later, they still haven't released anything at all for UVD, and my understanding is that the power saving and performance stuff is still pretty lame. Maybe Inthell will be faster, but I'm not counting on it. Besides, there are multiple very good reasons to avoid them. ( A long history of crappy designs, bugs, and business practices that are illegal and immoral. But let's not get distracted into yet another offtopic discussion.) Speaking of offtopic discussions, it feels like time for a reminder about the Open Hardware list: The Open Hardware list is for general discussion of Free/Libre/Open Hardware, including many topics that are off-topic for the Open Graphics list. http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
