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Originally posted by matthewbpt View PostSeeing as the linux kernel is GPL'ed I don't see how this could be possible ... no conspiracy theories please ...
1. nVidia hands out no documentation, so you need the blob;
2. Open source GPL parts refer to the blob;
3. Linux depends upon proprietary.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostJust to put this into perspective, this project is all about nvidia trying to turn the linux kernel into their own personal proprietary blob. Drop dead nvidia!
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostJust to put this into perspective, this project is all about nvidia trying to turn the linux kernel into their own personal proprietary blob. Drop dead nvidia!
Linux is key to their hardware adoption in this regard and therefore they can't and won't do that.
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Just to put this into perspective, this project is all about nvidia trying to turn the linux kernel into their own personal proprietary blob. Drop dead nvidia!
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostYou are arguing but saying the same thing. SSE and the likes brought vector specific registers to the x86 much like Altivec did for the PPC. In fact AVX is an effort to further improve on those capabilities.
I thought you were saying that Larrebee ofloaded them. I meant to say that it does them.
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostLol, no... Larrabee was some sort of CPU design that allowed you to do vector calculations in the CPU. These vector registers could aid in 3D rendering, but that's about it, basically.
I still have that Intel paper somewhere in my Gmail account is case you don't believe me...Last edited by deanjo; 08 May 2011, 05:22 PM.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostYup it could in theory but it would be much slower and inefficient. That is basically what intels Larrabee was trying to do.
I still have that Intel paper somewhere in my Gmail account is case you don't believe me...
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Originally posted by not.sure View PostSilly question:
Can't GPUs be made to assist the CPU in software rendering (3D, video) via a standard instruction set extension (say 'SSE42' or 'x88')? Wouldn't that allow us to get rid of all the 'graphics driver' mess and have such things HW accelerated independently of the specific hardware?
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Silly question:
Can't GPUs be made to assist the CPU in software rendering (3D, video) via a standard instruction set extension (say 'SSE42' or 'x88')? Wouldn't that allow us to get rid of all the 'graphics driver' mess and have such things HW accelerated independently of the specific hardware?
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