On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:49 AM Adam Van Ymeren adam@vany.ca wrote:
On October 17, 2018 4:43:29 PM GMT+09:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
USD $1m would fund the Libre RISC-V 3D GPU effort through to 100% completion including quite likely actual test silicon in a smaller geometry like 65 / 55nm (700mhz or so, which for a GPU would be damn good).
l.
That would be a way better use of $1 million USD IMO. Would much rather have an open GPU than constantly be playing catchup reversing proprietary GPUs.
some people would say it's better for users to at least have something. others would say that after reverse-engineering is completed, ODMs are likely (eventually) to actually distribute the reverse-engineered drivers.
ARM of course is quite likely to continue to release proprietary drivers, with newer proprietary versions of MALI never being compatible, thus always ensuring that end-users are left trapped.
l.