linux-kernel - Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component

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Date:	Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:27:37 -0700
From:	Corbin Simpson <mostawesomedude@...il.com>
To:	Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski <curious@...190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source 
	kernel component

I thought Intel shelved Larrabee.

~ C.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
<curious@...190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl> wrote:
>> We are going to start to see a number of companies in the embedded
>> space submitting 3D drivers for mobile devices to the kernel. I'd like
>> to clarify my position once so they don't all come asking the same
>> questions.
>
> one of options for future would be equipping gpu's with additional
> processing force, allowing it to run whole Xorg on it's own,
> and just communicate with rest of machine via shared memory window (so
> visible as 'hardware X server' from systems standpoint),
>
> option which allows both - closing 'source' of gpu , and taking
> off burden of development for closed, once-use-throwaway
> devices from Xorg and kenel crew.
>
> also port of Xorg on GPUs itself allows skipping a lot of features
> of kernel, and OS itself (it doesn't to be based on linux afterall)
> allowing much more robust performance, and skipping common bottlenecks
> (sharing irq's , scheduling, etc)
>
> but this route needs to be considered by hardware vendors themselves.
>
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Corbin Simpson
<MostAwesomeDude@...il.com>
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