[Arm-netbook] Libre RISC-V RV64GC SoC

[Louis Pearson]

On Dec 29, 2017 8:39 AM, "Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton" <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 2:25 PM, mike.valk at gmail.com
<mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-12-29 6:48 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:
>> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2D: Skip. AMD and Vivante already do so, NVIDIA will too IIRC. The 2D
> accelerators were mostly for windowing systems now replaced by
> composting systems, including MS Windows, and other means, Androids
> SurfaceFlinger, etc. The missing functions are now done on 3D or CPU.

 yyeah which i'm not keen on (critically relying on 3D) - that means
you *have* to have OpenGL.  plus if using ORSOC Graphics Accelerator
it would actually be necessary to rip those features *out* of it.

 ORSOC GPU is smart, it has scalable vector font support, z-buffer
support, 3D polygon display and much more.   really cool.


Don't know if opengl is a hard dependency now that vulkan is out there.