What do you think this will do for the GPU support though? There are a couple mali architectures now that support OpenGL ( Bifrost https://wiki.debian.org/PanfrostLima )
I'm out of practice, but I was once tinkering with an Allwinner A80 with a PowerVR GPU, and there was OpenGL support in the proprietary binaries, somewhere.... I gave up. It does Open GLES and sits in a drawer until I think of what to do with it or do you think they'll adopt NVIDIA (like the jetson nano)? NV already puts pci-e (some lanes) on its jetsons with arm cores, so in a few more cycles, maybe there will be enough on-chip to support all the connectors, network stuff that apple puts on laptops/desktops And there was that fusion CL/GL API they wanted to put out called Metal. I haven't followed along with its progress. Is it related? Chuck On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 4:25 PM Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote: > > Howdy all, > > Apple announced today that it will transition from Intel to its own Arm > processors. What this will bring is: > > * Universal 2: x86_64 & arm fat binaries > * Rosetta 2: emulation layer from x86_64 to arm > > For Pd, this means that current binaries will most likely *run* but who knows > how the performance will be good for realtime DSP. OTOH, they did demo a game > and some virtualization support so it seems they have focused on making > things run as well as they can. > > Building Pd itself for macOS arm should be relatively easy, just a different > arch target. For externals, this would may require an additional fat lib > type, perhaps dfat_2? Note, I believe the distinction will be important for > us since we still have "Universal 1" builds. As with the Pd core, updating > pd-lib-builder should also be relatively easy by adding the new arch targets, > depending on what they are. > > For deken, this means recompiling and uploading the new fat type. > > I don't imagine it will be possible to have a "fatter lib" which supports > ppc, x86, x86_64, & arm. I believe the writing is on the wall for the > eventual need for a build system newer then OS X 10.6. > > -------- > Dan Wilcox > @danomatika > danomatika.com > robotcowboy.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
