But is there a way out. They way all these graphics chip companies behave we will never get a graphics chip on moko. For the worst case scenario that something as bad as that happens on the binary driver side. Openmoko employees will still be able to access the code as licensees. And I am not talking about qualcomm. I am talking about omap 3530. TI is any time better than qualcomm Moreover as i had read in thread whose link i posted in the previous post, that there are some reverse engineered drivers for older omaps and there is hope of reuse and coming up with open only drivers. and as stated above the performance without the proprietary stuff isnt bad either
our moko !!!!!!!!! On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:09 PM, arne anka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When the 2D/3D graphics drivers are released, only the kernel portions >> will be GPL. The user-space libraries will be closed source by the >> current plan of record. >> >> I guess this is good enough. I dont think we are getting anything more >> with Glamo as well > > i don't think it is enough. > not getting more with the glamo cannot be the standard and rational to put > us in the same situation again. > these only partial open drivers are almost as evil as the closed ones -- > when something important changes you can't change the driver's internals > and when qualcomm finally decides to drop the development of drivers you > are stuck with driver rapidly becoming obsolete. > i've lived w/ ati and nvidia drivers for the past few years and it ain't > no fun. > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
