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-> RTL must be sufficient to run on an FPGA.
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-a *demo* must run on an FPGA as an initial
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-> Software must be licensed under LGPLv2+ or BSD/MIT.
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-and no other licenses. GPLv2+ is out.
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-> Hardware (RTL) must be licensed under BSD or MIT with no “NON-COMMERCIAL
-> CLAUSES”.
-> Any proposals will be competing against Vivante GC800 (using Etnaviv
-> driver).
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-in terms of price, performance and power budget, yes. if you look up
-the numbers (triangles/sec, pixels/sec, power usage, die area) you'll
-find it's really quite modest. nyuzi right now requires FOUR times the
-silicon area of e.g. MALI400 to achieve the same performance as MALI400,
-meaning that the power usage alone would be well in excess of the budget.
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-> The job must be done by a team that shows sufficient expertise to reduce the
-> risk. (Do you mean a team with good CVs? What about if the team shows you an
-> acceptable FPGA prototype?
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-that would be fantastic as it would demonstrate not only competence
-but also committment. and will have taken out the "risk" of being
-"unknown", entirely.
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-> I’m talking about a team of students which do not
-> have big industrial CVs but they know how to handle this job (just like
-> RocketChip or MIAOW or etc…).
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- works perfectly for me :)
+* The deadline is really tight. If an FPGA (or simulation) plus the basics of the software driver are at least prototyped by then it *might* be ok.
+* If using Nyuzi as the basis it *might* be possible to begin the software port in parallel because Jeff went to the trouble of writing a cycle-accurate simulation.
+* I *suspect* it will result in less work to use Gallium3D than, for example, writing an entire OpenGL stack from scratch.
+* A *demo* should run on an FPGA as an initial. The FPGA is not a priority for assessment, but it would be *nice* if
+it could fit into a ZC706.
+* Also if there is parallel hardware obviously it would be nice to be able to demonstrate parallelism to the maximum extend possible. But again, being reasonable, if the GPU is so big that only a single core can fit into even a large FPGA then for an initial demo that would be fine.
+* Note that no other licenses are acceptable. GPLv2+ is out.