Re: Freescale Licenses AMD Graphics Technologies for use in iMX processors

2007-09-23 Thread Klaus Rotter
Daniel Stone wrote: > AMD has opened the Radeon graphics specs. Their embedded chipsets > (based on work by the Bitboys crew) have nothing to do with the Radeons, > and nothing to do with the announcement in the slightest. TI has released some SDK for Linux and the OMAP 2420 and 2430 chipset. Loo

Re: Freescale Licenses AMD Graphics Technologies for use in iMX processors

2007-09-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:22:02PM -0400, ext Jon Smirl wrote: > Here's a good reason to switch from OMAP to iMX31 in next gen device > Combine this with AMD's decision to open source the specs. > > AMD today announced Freescale Semiconductor will license its 2D and 3D > graphics technology. F

Re: Freescale Licenses AMD Graphics Technologies for use in iMX processors

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/21/07, Klaus Rotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > 2) To open the specs for some ATI/AMD graphics architecture does not > mean that all specs are open. Even the Xorg programmers said, that the > specs opened just covers the 2D part. For now, that's the case. They are promisin

Re: Freescale Licenses AMD Graphics Technologies for use in iMX processors

2007-09-21 Thread Klaus Rotter
Jon Smirl wrote: > Here's a good reason to switch from OMAP to iMX31 in next gen device > Combine this with AMD's decision to open source the specs. Maybe... but there are a couple of things which vote against it: 1) The Hardware used in the N800 is also used in various other Nokia products.

Freescale Licenses AMD Graphics Technologies for use in iMX processors

2007-09-19 Thread Jon Smirl
Here's a good reason to switch from OMAP to iMX31 in next gen device Combine this with AMD's decision to open source the specs. AMD today announced Freescale Semiconductor will license its 2D and 3D graphics technology. Freescale Semiconductor will use the AMD graphics technologies to equip it