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Not only PowerVRNot only PowerVRPosted Dec 12, 2009 13:14 UTC (Sat) by kragil (guest, #34373)In reply to: Not only PowerVR by drag Parent article: Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica)
Interesting. I can see how some stupid Intel execs could think that. And I know that a reliance on 100% FOSS would make Chrome OS computers on ARM impossible.
The current situation just sucks all around. ARM has only PowerVR and Tegra ... if only AMD/ATI hadn't given up on ARM GFX.
At the moment Google is the only tiny hope..
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Not only PowerVR Posted Dec 12, 2009 22:59 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Situation is not so hopeless. The proposed plan for Poulsbo is workable.
They're planning to create open source DRM, kernel modesetting and X.org 2D driver. So you'll have fully open source 2D accelerated desktop.
3D will be a closed driver based on Gallium3D. I.e. only a fairly small amount of userspace code will be closed. And in principle it won't be hard to reverse engineer it.
Not the perfect situation. But not completely doom&gloomy.
Not only PowerVR Posted Dec 13, 2009 2:13 UTC (Sun) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]
Very interesting. Do you have any current links?
From what I read (on the internet) that plan did not really materialize (was abandoned)
Not only PowerVR Posted Dec 13, 2009 3:42 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
I mostly get info from reading IRC channels (dri-devel, etc.). As far as I understand, this plan is still a work-in-progress and certainly is not abandoned.
Also, Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nz...
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