Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:15:14 -0700 | | From | Corbin Simpson <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes |
Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:03 -0400, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote: >> This might be the opinion of a completely non educated end user but it >> seems that an intel specific drm and other bits (xorg, mesa) would be >> somewhat of a maintenance waste. >> >> TI-OMAP 3xxx and a couple of other arm processors use similar SGX-5xx >> graphics cores. IIRC arm is often little endian so perhaps a unified >> driver would be easier in the long term. > > Long term a unified driver would be very nice to have and nobody > disagrees with that. Things don't happen overnight and you have to take > smaller steps to get there. This proposal is one step on a road that may > lead to a driver for the TI part too. It will need someone in the ARM > community to step up and write the ARM specific bits.
Nokia's written and open-sourced some related code for DRM.
My university is paying me to work on an ARM-based SoC handheld with an SGX core, and I might be more into this later. (Y'know, once the device is actually out the door.)
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