[Arm-netbook] Possible GPU?

[luke.leighton]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Stéphane Goujet
<stephane.goujet at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hei,
>
> Le Fri, 4 Oct 2013 12:19:15 +0300,
> Lauri Kasanen <cand at gmx.com> a écrit :
>
>> I was wondering if you'd heard about Bruno's open GPU that's about to
>> go kickstarter, and what you think of it.
>> They want to open the IP from Number Nine, in FPGA form. It has both
>> 2d and fixed-function GL parts, separable from each other if only 2d
>> is needed.
>
>   It opened a few hour ago :
>
> <http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-graphics-processor-gpu>

 oh _good_.  it looks like they listened about the licensing and have
picked LGPLv3+ instead of a stupid creative-commons "attribution"
license that is totally incompatible with opencores and opensparc
licensing.

 at least with LGPLv3+ the verilog source can be treated as a separate
"object" even with opensparc being LGPLv2 it's still compatible
because the two codebases aren't mixed, they're connected by
interfaces, called "bits of wire" :)

l.