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It means you can support the GPU on your own kernel

Authored by: marcosdumay on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 12:25 PM EDT

But, yes, it means you don't get to add or fix any feature on the GPU itself.

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It's step in the right direction...

Authored by: betajet on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 04:05 PM EDT

... and encourages Broadcom VideoCore's competiton (ARM's MALI, Imagination Technology's PowerVR, Nvidia, etc.) to open up their APIs as well. It's easy for a corporation to say "we won't open our APIs -- nobody else does it". The picture changes when a major player decides to "be the first -- start a fashion", as Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) says in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Yes, I realize it's easy for Broadcom to do this because their API is essentially the same as OpenGL, so they're not exposing anything proprietary. OTOH, I doubt there's anything really novel in anyone else's API even if they're non-standard. The novelty is in the GPU code that implements the API, and perhaps the instruction set of the GPU.

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