Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Wed Jun 4 21:56:56 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| On Tuesday 03 June 2008 09:06:35 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
|> the day nvidia comes with open drivers for this... we can begin to
take an
|> interest :)
|
| Sorry, just how open is the current glamo driver exactly?

Pretty open (apologies if the first one wraps):

http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=blob;f=drivers/mfd/glamo/glamo-fb.c;h=16e9d2e4aa0a4ff01a4efa080e7233696cb1f3b7;hb=eb6932e9617f9ad3161957490de8011482b83d24
http://git.openmoko.org/?p=xglamo.git;a=tree

| IMO, OpenMoko's choice of using the the glamo was a big mistake
(Connecting it to a
| shared, 4-bit bus was probably the _biggest_ mistake).

Huh what?  It's a 16-bit memory bus, maybe you mean 2^4 ;-)  When I
actually use the thing I don't notice much sluggishness.  Your best bet
is to eyeball one, I think you'll find it isn't the issue you think it is.

- -Andy
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