[Arm-netbook] Fwd: Allwinner A31 + Imation/PowerVR/SGX

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, mike.valk at gmail.com
<mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been passively been watching the list for quite a while now. But
> could not keep my mouth shut on this one.
>
> Why bother with the A31? It has a PowerVR SGX GPU core and probably
> the VPU resides in that IP part of the SoC as well.
> http://linux-sunxi.org/A31

 correct.  just as vivante does not provide information, just as ARM
does not provide information, just as nvidia does not provide
information, just as every single GPU hard macro company does not
provide information.

> Please, I urge you to put your time to better use an leave every
> Imation tainted SoC to rot. Perhaps that will persuade Imation to be a
> bit more Linux friendly.

 and we must also urge freescale to leave vivante alone, we must urge
TI to stop using PowerVR, we must urge allwinner to stop using MALI,
we must urge samsung to stop using MALI and PowerVR...

... in fact, we must urge absolutely every single SoC company in the
market to cease and desist from designing multi-billion-dollar
products.

and, if they don't listen, we must influence their customers and urge
the customers not to buy their crap.

 ... can you see how that would be a waste of everybody's time?

why would it be a waste of everybody's time?

because you are not offering an alternative, are you?

why would they listen to you if you do not offer them an alternative
GPU which satisfies your requirements as well as theirs?

do you know what their requirements *are*?

where is the open hardware GPU that can be recommended to these companies?

has it been tested?

does it have the test vectors that these proprietary companies can use
to verify that their $50 millon non-recoverable investment stands a
high probability of working?

so the plan is to make money, and then use that money to fund projects
which *don't* depend on these arseholes.

it's no good complaining about these things - we have to actually be
in a position of influence, and to be able to offer these SoC
companies what they want.

and, even then if they won't listen, bypass them [*1].

l.

[*1] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/04/1748232/toward-an-fsf-endorsable-embedded-processor