[Arm-netbook] OpenVG Lib for A10

[Wojciech Meyer]

lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Piyush Verma <piyush.pv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Does anybody have openvg hardware accelerated lib for A10 ?
>
>  it's nothing to do with "A10 per se", and everything to do with MALI-400.
>
> http://www.arm.com/products/multimedia/mali-graphics-hardware/mali-400-mp.php
> http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7618:core-logic-licenses-arm-mali-400-mp-gpu-to-offer-hd-graphics-for-portable-media&catid=174:processors&Itemid=2701163
> http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/25264.php
>
>  ok, so ARM was claiming OpenVG compliance back in 2009.  doesn't mean
> that the actual software made it out the door in any useful and
> easy-to-find manner, but that at least gives you a clue that,
> somewhere, kicking and screaming, some sort of library should be
> possible to extract from ARM.
>
>  certainly a google search "MALI 400 OpenVG" doesn't throw anything up
> - lots of wonderful news articles about how it's all possible, but no
> actual links to source code.

I think, if you got a stock driver, and link against the shared object
part of it, you will get the OpenVG support. You'd just need the
Khronos headers too, perhaps slightly modified - I think they are
distributed with the drivers itself. You might also need to supply a
build switch to enable the support if you are building them.
I've not tried this however.

Wojciech

>  i know that there are a couple of people from linaro and ARM who are
> subscribed to this list: if you happen to know where these libraries
> are, please do speak up.  if you'd prefer to remain as "lurkers" send
> it to me privately, i'll strip out your contact details and forward it
> on to the list.
>
>  l.