i would assume they are moving forward from their oldest hardware. definitely more recent codebases might require much more legal screening prior to eventual release.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostThis series is so old that I'm sure there's no practical relation between it and the architectures found in ARM chips. That would be like Nvidia releasing the source code for the Riva TNT and somehow using that to figure out how to make open source Ampere drivers (or really, any GPU Nvidia made within the past decade).
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Originally posted by yoshi314 View Posti would assume they are moving forward from their oldest hardware. definitely more recent codebases might require much more legal screening prior to eventual release.
If this is just a one-time code drop of fossilized hardware, it's not that big of a deal. But if it's followed by newer, and newer, and yet still newer code kind of like how AMD did it, until all of Imagination hardware is on open source, this is pretty amazing news.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostHell has frozen over!
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Originally posted by c117152 View PostStuff that was licensed to 3rd parties is probably the hardest to FOSS it might require their approval.
Besides, I don't see Intel opposing, considering they seem to be the most open source friendly GPU manufacturer out there.
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Originally posted by sinepgib View PostIsn't generally the other way around?
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Originally posted by CommunityMember View Post
As with all else, it can be complicated, as if you create/modify an IP core for a specific customer that customer may have some ownership rights to the modifications. Only the parties involved will know who owns what. And whenever two parties with (very expensive) lawyers have to agree on (re)licensing, things take time (a lot of time).
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