Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:38:12 +0300 | From | Jan Knutar <> | Subject | Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? |
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On Thursday 21 October 2004 19:34, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
> I'm thinking more like microcode. The functional blocks on the chip > would be capable of being "rewired" by the OS, depending on the > applications being run. All of the functions would still operate out of > card-local memory.
Are you thinking something along the lines of an optimizing+profiling host-CPU-software-renderer to FPGA-reprogrammed JIT accelerator? :)
The idea of reprogramming the hardware to toss out the line drawing and other things that GTK and friends probably only present to X as pixmaps anyway, and use that 'die space' for something else, is certainly appealing.
Of course, for a software -> hardware JITc, I think the budget required would be a few magnitudes more than mentioned here earlier, and half a decade of debugging or more ontop.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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