> 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.
I'll agree that we should focus on *just* a GPU when someone can provide some business logic on how we can ship a million GPUs from that single first mask run. My opinion is it's more likely that a full Libre-hardware SOC with GPU, cpu, MMU, FPU, and InfiniBand will ship a million units. If the SoC has InfiniBand, I can dream up an architecture where if you want higher GPU performance, you just plug in more SoCs to your infiniband switch backplane. > 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. The open-hardware list archives are members-only. I'll be happy to take this discussion there if one of the following conditions are met: a) someone is paying me to keep discussions closed or b) the archives are open for public inspection. I like referring to thing's I've posted in a public mailing list archive 2-10 years later. (Speaking of which, I would like to mirror the list archive(s) on my server) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
