hardware implementation of Xorg
Am 03.07.2010 05:05, schrieb Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski: > Hello. > While i've been thinking about open-hardware alternatives > for Xorg , i started to wonder about if it isn't already > time to implement Xorg purely in hardware, i.e. set of > FPGA chips. You might want to have a look at the open-graphics project and it's mailing list. Philipp
hardware implementation of Xorg
> ofcourse at current state of technology Xorg will be unable > to fit single chip, yet it's current modular nature > and fact that it's (still) completely open-source, > and uses pieces of system which are also open-source > developed (i.e. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/ ) ... could allow it to fit in several 'off-the-shelf' fpga's.
hardware implementation of Xorg
Hello. While i've been thinking about open-hardware alternatives for Xorg , i started to wonder about if it isn't already time to implement Xorg purely in hardware, i.e. set of FPGA chips. one can find many nice examples of functional 8bit systems able to fit into single chips (i.e. http://zxgate.sourceforge.net/ ) ofcourse at current state of technology Xorg will be unable to fit single chip, yet it's current modular nature and fact that it's (still) completely open-source, and uses pieces of system which are also open-source developed (i.e. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/ ) there are ofcourse C to verilog converters, and almost whole process (except prototyping) could be automated. do you think it is time for it now, or it's better to wait few years until Xorg will reach enough stability, and Xorg foundation will be able to afford fabbing it's own , non-fpga chips ? did anyone already performed any evaluations on how power-efficient such chips could be? perhaps mobile market could use them as more convient alternative to cpu+gpu hybrids, esp. for devices without heavy 3d, ultra-high-resolution, and multihead capability... --
hardware implementation of Xorg
Hello. While i've been thinking about open-hardware alternatives for Xorg , i started to wonder about if it isn't already time to implement Xorg purely in hardware, i.e. set of FPGA chips. one can find many nice examples of functional 8bit systems able to fit into single chips (i.e. http://zxgate.sourceforge.net/ ) ofcourse at current state of technology Xorg will be unable to fit single chip, yet it's current modular nature and fact that it's (still) completely open-source, and uses pieces of system which are also open-source developed (i.e. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/ ) there are ofcourse C to verilog converters, and almost whole process (except prototyping) could be automated. do you think it is time for it now, or it's better to wait few years until Xorg will reach enough stability, and Xorg foundation will be able to afford fabbing it's own , non-fpga chips ? did anyone already performed any evaluations on how power-efficient such chips could be? perhaps mobile market could use them as more convient alternative to cpu+gpu hybrids, esp. for devices without heavy 3d, ultra-high-resolution, and multihead capability... -- ___ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
Re: hardware implementation of Xorg
ofcourse at current state of technology Xorg will be unable to fit single chip, yet it's current modular nature and fact that it's (still) completely open-source, and uses pieces of system which are also open-source developed (i.e. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/ ) ... could allow it to fit in several 'off-the-shelf' fpga's. ___ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
