<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Hi All,<br>
<br>
I've been passively been watching the list for quite a while now. But<br>
could not keep my mouth shut on this one.<br>
<br>
Why bother with the A31? It has a PowerVR SGX GPU core and probably<br>
the VPU resides in that IP part of the SoC as well.<br>
<a href="http://linux-sunxi.org/A31" target="_blank">http://linux-sunxi.org/A31</a><br>
<br>
Imation is not a Linux friendly company. All they provide is binary<br>
drivers. And those come at infrequent intervals and they are not<br>
publicly released.<br>
<br>
Even Intel was unable to pursade them to deliver up to date drivers<br>
for the Atoms.<br>
<br>
Just search Poulsbo+Linux on the web. For example:<br>
<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Poulsbo" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Poulsbo</a><br>
<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo</a><br>
<br>
The FSF has put reverse engineering the SGX driver a top priority<br>
task, but No body to this day has took a real bite. It seems that FSF<br>
has even removed it from the list. I wonder why?<br>
<a href="http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:PowerVR_drivers" target="_blank">http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:PowerVR_drivers</a><br>
<br>
Alan Cox has managed to create a upstream KMS drivers for the Poulsbo.<br>
But that is as far as he will go. He wrote that in all the bits of<br>
code out there a VPU driver creation should be manageable to be build,<br>
but nobody has bothered until now.<br>
<br>
Please, I urge you to put your time to better use an leave every<br>
Imation tainted SoC to rot. Perhaps that will persuade Imation to be a<br>
bit more Linux friendly.<br>
<br>
And it will be long before the opensource driver will be ready.<br>
Imation also allegedly stranglehold all the most talented GPU<br>
developers with NDA's, through there (previous) employers.<br>
<br>
Kr, Mike<br>
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