A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 22, 2011 21:52 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: A free GMA500 graphics driver by Cyberax
Parent article: A free GMA500 graphics driver

The 6410 contains Samsung's own GPU, which is derived from the old AMD embedded division that Samsung bought. It has nothing to do with SGX, despite what Luke Leighton might try to have you believe.

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 23, 2011 7:07 UTC (Wed) by idanso (guest, #59932) [Link] (1 responses)

It was Qualcomm that bought the Imageon line from AMD(which they use in their Snapdragon line):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageon

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 23, 2011 12:35 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

I'm sorry, you're right. The Samsung one appears to be from scratch.

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 23, 2011 10:08 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

I've compared lists of supported extensions on PowerVR and Samsung, they look similar.

I have not yet looked in details but so far it looks like that Samsung's chip is just PowerVR IP-core with some custom bits.

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Feb 23, 2011 12:38 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Samsung also produce chips with PowerVR. The 6410 isn't one of them.

A free GMA500 graphics driver

Posted Mar 18, 2011 20:51 UTC (Fri) by lkcl (guest, #60496) [Link]

yes that was a mistake on my part - the S3C6410 has "FIMD" which samsung would have bought in (they *never* make anything of their own). there are two teams in samsung: their designs overlap, so one team comes out with a SoC whilst the other one is still working on the next one. the S5PC100 (800mhz) had the same "FIMD" 3D engine, but the S5PC110 (1ghz) had that FIMD engine ripped out, to be replaced with a PowerVR SGX engine. exactly why is anybody's guess. but yes, i made the post to which you're referring *before* i had this information.