Messages in this thread | | | From | Jan Rychter <> | Subject | Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:30:06 -0700 |
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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@sci.fi> writes: Jan> 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.
Jan> Are you thinking something along the lines of an Jan> optimizing+profiling host-CPU-software-renderer to Jan> FPGA-reprogrammed JIT accelerator? :)
Jan> The idea of reprogramming the hardware to toss out the line Jan> drawing and other things that GTK and friends probably only Jan> present to X as pixmaps anyway, and use that 'die space' for Jan> something else, is certainly appealing.
Jan> Of course, for a software -> hardware JITc, I think the budget Jan> required would be a few magnitudes more than mentioned here Jan> earlier, and half a decade of debugging or more ontop..
This isn't *strictly* related to the main topic of this discussion, but: You might want to look at the Stretch CPU (http://www.stretchinc.com/), which, incidentally, runs Linux. Or rather the Xtensa part of it does.
--J.
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