hardware implementation of Xorg

hardware implementation of Xorg

[Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski]

Hello.
While i've been thinking about open-hardware alternatives
for Xorg , i started to wonder about if it isn't already
time to implement Xorg purely in hardware, i.e. set of
FPGA chips.

one can find many nice examples of functional 8bit systems
able to fit into single chips
(i.e. http://zxgate.sourceforge.net/ )

ofcourse at current state of technology Xorg will be unable
to fit single chip, yet it's current modular nature
and fact that it's (still) completely open-source,
and uses pieces of system which are also open-source
developed (i.e. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/ )

there are ofcourse C to verilog converters, and almost
whole process (except prototyping) could be automated.

do you think it is time for it now, or it's better to wait
few years until Xorg will reach enough stability, and Xorg
foundation will be able to afford fabbing it's own ,
non-fpga chips ?

did anyone already performed any evaluations on how
power-efficient such chips could be?

perhaps mobile market could use them as more convient alternative
to cpu+gpu hybrids, esp. for devices without heavy 
3d, ultra-high-resolution, and multihead capability...


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Re: hardware implementation of Xorg

[Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski]

> ofcourse at current state of technology Xorg will be unable
> to fit single chip, yet it's current modular nature
> and fact that it's (still) completely open-source,
> and uses pieces of system which are also open-source
> developed (i.e. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/ )

... could allow it to fit in several 'off-the-shelf' fpga's.

Re: hardware implementation of Xorg

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

Am 03.07.2010 05:05, schrieb Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski:
> Hello.
> While i've been thinking about open-hardware alternatives
> for Xorg , i started to wonder about if it isn't already
> time to implement Xorg purely in hardware, i.e. set of
> FPGA chips.

You might want to have a look at the open-graphics project and it's
mailing list.

Philipp