On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<[email protected]> wrote:

> the proposal is therefore to not hang about: begin to reverse-engineer
> the "top" GPU, PowerVR, which is present in at least 75% of the
> top-of-the-range ARM embedded CPUs.  work has already been done to
> establish the GPU's on-board RISC instruction set (by a polish free
> software developer).  this work was done "passively" (by analysing the
> proprietary libraries).  the work needs to be continued "actively",
> and a working OpenGL library created.

Would ou also consider (or maybe this is another project ?)
having a GPL kernel driver for SGX ?
Something that'd use KMS/DRM and ease the Mesa/Gallium3D/OpenGL
user-space libs that you expect to have.

> the payoff is huge.  the list of CPUs with PowerVR includes Texas
> Instruments top-of-the-range OMAP, AM Sitara and DaVinci CPUs, all of
> Freescale's top-of-the-range iMX series, all of Samsung's
> top-of-the-range ARM Cortex A8 and A9 CPUs, Marvell's top-of-the-range
> armv7-compatible 1.2 to 2ghz CPUs, NXP's new Cortex A9 and (the
> odd-one-out) Intel's "Poulsbo" GMA500 GPU.  the list just goes on and
> those are just the ones that are in the current 45nm geometry.

You can also add Intel CE4xxx SoC to this list.

Ben
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