On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:37:11AM +1100, Hugh Fisher wrote: > On 18/01/13 11:25, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > >That giant sucking sound you hear, Mr. Eben is the Allwinner A10 > >eating your lunch because it's more open, and when the Open-graphics > >GPU/system on a chip comes it, it will put broadcom out of business. > > This is the Allwinner A10 with the ARM Mali400 GPU, right? The GPU > that only has proprietary closed source drivers you license from > ARM? And somehow this is more "open" than the Pi GPU?
Yes, you're right the A10 has the obnoxious Mali GPU. However, (at least at the moment) Allwinner is being significantly more forthcoming about how to program *everything else* on the chip than Broadcom is about theirs. When the RaPI was announced I started asking about schematics for the board and heard some nonsense about a broadcom NDA, at which point I wrote it off as worthless. Now, I seem to stand corrected, as there are schematics posted, but I am still not sure I can find a gerber or other PCB layout for it. There are several efforts to do A10-based boards with KiCad (open source PCB layout tool) I've also selected the A10 for a no-graphics energy monitor application because running 100% GPL software was a hard design requirement. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
