Hi Luke On the topic of GPU's have you seen this? https://github.com/etnaviv/etna_viv Seems to be a libre driver for Vivante GPU's
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:13 PM, <ronwirr...@safe-mail.net> wrote: > > > How can you make an arm gpu for 150000usd? > > you don't. ARM is a registered trademark, and copying what they're > doing is asking for trouble. > > instead you take one of the "open gpus" or parts of them and use that. > there's several i've been tracking: MIAOW, Nyuzi, the ORSOC graphics > accelerator - there's surprisingly quite a lot out there. > > > How would you use it? > > it would be on the same silicon, on the same memory bus as the RISC-V > 64-bit core. anything else is too power-hungry. > > > Would you put it additionally on a bord and not use the gpu located on > the processor socket? > > no. > > > If you reverse engineer the latest mali gpu, what you hold against it > is, that when next version of an arm socket is for sale it will have a new > mali gpu and require a new reverse engineering? > > correct. so whatever you get it's guaranteed to be "old". this is > the sad fact of reverse-engineering: all that effort, with *no > guarantee of success*.... just to get something that's years > out-of-date. > > > > Lets say 50000 people would buy the filrefly rk3399. Same people would > pay 3eu each for reverse engineering the gpu. Then we would have a source > code arm computer? > > no. ARM has acted so unethically in slandering luc verhaegen and > blackmailing companies that pay him that i am not interested in > supporting their business any more than is absolutely necessary. > > > It takes a lot of coordination to provide gnulinux distributions I > assume. > > yes. a _lot_. however amazingly people are actually doing just > that... even on risc-v where there isn't yet even any actual hardware. > > > It is unfortunate people are not able to coordinate such that we can get > source code hardware. > > it's still quite a young area of focus. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk >
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