On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:08:18AM +0200, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Steve Langasek: > > >> I'd actually see some restriction with regard to interoperability > >> (i.e. some reasonably documented interface between the firmware and > >> the driver code), but getting this right is likely not worth the > >> effort. > > > > Hmm, I'm not sure what that would look like at all; as someone else noted, > > one generally doesn't talk to the firmware even, one talks to the device. > > The higher-layer protocol the device speaks to the driver is typically > implemented by the firmware. > > But it turns out that what I want has not much to do with > interoperability. The thing I'd like to rule out is that > application-specific code is transferred to a device, and we do not > provide source code for that device. For example, implementing OpenGL > primitives (or JPEG decompression) on the GPU in sourceless firmware > might be acceptable, but putting computer AI for games in there, or > rendering a proprietary video format using it would be much harder to > accept.
Note that there are more and more applications trying to use the power of the GPU for computation. The hole should not be left open in the GR. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
