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benny1967 2008-04-22 19:32
OMAP3 resources opened
 
I stumbled upon this blog post a few days ago and wondered if it would mean anything to Nokia and the tablets. Anybody know if/how (future) tablets are affected?

Quote:
Texas Instruments OMAP series of mobile CPUs have for some time had okay Linux support with parts of the code coming from community, parts from TI and parts from Nokia, one of the vendors. This month we start seeing results of TI’s recent efforts on making this support better by opening various technical resources that were available only to the vendors earlier. Yesterday the announcement of their DSP-bridge framework release under GPL was posted to the linux-omap list, and as of this week you can download the entire TRMs (35MB PDF each) for various OMAP3 CPUs from ti.com. Added to this are various types of manuals, example code and that covers also the recently announced 35xx models.

I had an occasion to be at TI’s Rishi Bhattacharya’s talk at BossaConference last month with a sneak peek on the process of opening OMAP3 related resources that had been ongoing internally for some time. Apparently more releases are planned including among other things some GPLed sources (and some freeware binaries) of DSP codecs for use on OMAP.
Could this lead to more open code in Maemo?

fanoush 2008-04-22 20:45
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
Yes, future looks promising, too bad they (=TI) will probably open just new OMAP3 stuff, not older OMAP2 (or even 1) used in current tablets. But still it is great for any new OMAP3 based tablet :-)

jaivy 2008-04-23 04:57
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
right,fanoush get the point
http://www.zippo-shopping.com/zippo.bmp

benny1967 2008-04-23 07:09
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
Is there anything special that devs cannot do now because of the closed design that they will be able to do in the future? anything that users are waiting for?

Bundyo 2008-04-23 08:04
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
3D, java acceleration? But as fanoush said - they probably won't open the OMAP2 docs, so the devs won't be able to do it later too :)

Khertan 2008-04-23 08:07
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
a good wifi driver that support channel hopping ... :)

benny1967 2008-04-23 08:08
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
Well, there might be an OMAP3 based tablet in the future, so even if the current tablets don't benefit from it, the product line as such might.

Also, if they see that opening the specs doesn't hurt, maybe they reconsider their position on OMAP2?

fanoush 2008-04-23 08:20
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 173505)
Is there anything special that devs cannot do now because of the closed design that they will be able to do in the future? anything that users are waiting for?
It is too early to name anything special now. We'll see how much will be opened. At least it will be a bit easier to run own stuff on new DSP and use other hardware that Nokia decides to not to use for whatever reason. But still the 3d chip may remain closed (it is licenced from 3rd party). Also wi-fi chip in current tablets is not from TI and is closed too so there may be not improvement here.

What matters it that it proves that times are changing and companies like TI feel the pressure and see the importance of having things open. And due to domino effect it will sooner or later push others in same direction too.

fanoush 2008-04-23 08:36
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 173521)
maybe they reconsider their position on OMAP2?
Well, they planned it for OMAP3, it may not be possible to open older designs retrospectively due to 'intellectual property' reasons as some stuff may be licenced from other parties or other parties who already use current hardware with current licensing rules may not like it. Even if there is no problem they may feel it is not worth the investment to do it for old (soon to be obsolete) stuff. We'll see.

Voltron 2008-04-23 11:13
Re: OMAP3 resources opened
 
just give us the powervr driver >_<


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