I thought Intel shelved Larrabee. ~ C.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski <curious at bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl> wrote: >> We are going to start to see a number of companies in the embedded >> space submitting 3D drivers for mobile devices to the kernel. I'd like >> to clarify my position once so they don't all come asking the same >> questions. > > one of options for future would be equipping gpu's with additional > processing force, allowing it to run whole Xorg on it's own, > and just communicate with rest of machine via shared memory window (so > visible as 'hardware X server' from systems standpoint), > > option which allows both - closing 'source' of gpu , and taking > off burden of development for closed, once-use-throwaway > devices from Xorg and kenel crew. > > also port of Xorg on GPUs itself allows skipping a lot of features > of kernel, and OS itself (it doesn't to be based on linux afterall) > allowing much more robust performance, and skipping common bottlenecks > (sharing irq's , scheduling, etc) > > but this route needs to be considered by hardware vendors themselves. > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel > -- When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? ~ Keynes Corbin Simpson <MostAwesomeDude at gmail.com>
