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On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Muhammed Adel Afzal adel@ncf.ca wrote:
They got 3 million dollars ... wow.
yeah. started by a GOOGLE engineer who has access to GOOGLE engineering mailing lists and lots of friends at GOOGLE the project hit its funding goal within a couple of hours.
it basically uses a DisplayLink adaptor. DisplayLink adaptors actually contain a full CPU with a built-in GPU and hardware accelerated video decode engines, and they require some DDR RAM to hold the framebuffers and so on. it's a bit like a hardware-accelerated version of doing X11 (or a less sophisticated version of RDesktop) over USB instead of over a network.
it would be very interesting to emulate a DisplayLink adapter using a USB-OTG port set up in "client" mode. the drivers are availalbe for linux: they have been for some time. that way it would be possible to run a full-blown OS.... oh that happened to turn into a "display".
l.