Gary writes: > Just to be clear are we talking about a Video Card or a SoC?
There are multiple discussions going on. One discussion involves cases for various mainboard formfactors and power supplies and CPUs. I don't know what they are trying to accomplish, since cases don't need software and aren't FLOSS-hostile, power supplies don't need software (yet, anyway) and aren't FLOSS-hostile, and CPUs are documented and aren't FLOSS-hostile, at least pure CPUs are, the APUs with on-die undocumented GPUs and on-die undocumented video decoders are another matter. As far as I know none of the SoCs have documented video so they are all FLOSS-hostile and thus unusable. I don't understand why there is any discussion of using chips that are FLOSS-hostile, given that the whole point of the OGP is to fix that exact problem. If someone knows of a SoC that *is* properly documented and FLOSS-friendly, please let us know. Luke is working on building a FLOSS-friendly SoC, but it isn't ready yet. The discussion of Luke's SoC project seems to have wound down. We have Timothy and his GPU design group designing an energy efficient fully documented GPU. Not much discussion on the list recently, but I trust that the design is moving along. I figure that the GPU design people and the board design people are mostly different people, so we can work on designing the GPU and a card for the GPU in parallel. By using a socket or mini-PCIe connector we can make a documented video card that is useful for many (not all) tasks before the GPU chip is ready, and the GPU-full card will be ready sooner than if we wait for the GPU chip to be ready before starting design of the card. And then we have a discussion about asking Steam if they would like to partner with us. Have I missed any discussions? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
