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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