On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Arnaud Patard <arnaud.pat...@rtp-net.org> wrote: > David Kuehling <dvdkh...@gmx.de> writes: > >>>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: >>> i know that samsung's S3C6410 GPU engine is being reverse-engineered >>> from two different angles, the linux angle _and_ the wince angle, but >>> i'm seriously seriously trying to find a decent Cortex A8 CPU with a >>> _remote_ chance of a free software 3D stack. >> >> I read that the Efika-MX people are working to get 3D support for their >> hardware into Ubuntu. They're using an iMX 51 Cortex A8 core, AFAIK: > > and the gpu is the amd z430 (I think that qualcomm owns it nowadays) > >> >> http://blog.efikamx.info/2010/10/maverick-status-launchpad-project.html >> >> Whether they do everything open-source, I don't know, though. > > iirc, the kernel part is GPL [1] but the userspace is closed.
this is standard practice, right across the board. i literally have not been able to find a single non-proprietary on-chip GPU. the only one that has publicly available reverse-engineering going on around it that partly works is for the S3C6410. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimwsyxxqxip=j9mijr6w9hyacsybpuyz9enn...@mail.gmail.com
