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Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeti
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lkcl luke |
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Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting |
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Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:39:11 +0000 |
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:57 PM, John Darrington
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:41:25AM +0100, Dodji Seketeli wrote:
>
> For instance, the most widely used GPU on these devices (powervr)
> doesn't have a Free Software driver yet. And it's unlikely to have one
> unless it is reverse engineered. This is a huge and painful task ahead.
>
> GNU has overcome huge and painful tasks before. How can we start doing
> something about that? What needs to be done to reverse engineer the beast?
http://elinux.org/Create_Open_Source_PowerVR_GPU_driver
however, ironically, despite it being very common, it's been
recognised in the industry that powervr is a complete dog. so despite
it still being used in x86 embedded CPUs (menlow etc.) it's slowly
dropping from favour, and is being superceded by MALI.
which is yet _another_ proprietary GPU engine.
btw yes these engines qualify as "System Libraries" under GNU GPL
Exemption clauses, so it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.
l.
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, (continued)
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, Werner Koch, 2011/12/20
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, Dodji Seketeli, 2011/12/21
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, John Darrington, 2011/12/21
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting,
lkcl luke <=
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, Richard Stallman, 2011/12/23
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, Christian Mauduit, 2011/12/22
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, Richard Stallman, 2011/12/21
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, Dodji Seketeli, 2011/12/22
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, lkcl luke, 2011/12/22
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] [gnu-prog-discuss] Planning the next GNU Hackers Meeting, Simon Josefsson, 2011/12/20