08-30-2016, 02:50 AM
(08-30-2016, 02:27 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: ... see what people are really wanting is hw acceleration, and mali isn't it. The reason this is not coming forward the way people were expecting has literally legal, technical, and philosophical|political answers.
... which is why many people are feeling bamboozled.
Well, it's only taken a month to finally get there... since this thread started talking about mali being the solution to the hardware problem back on the 8th.
If there's no access to the source code, the issue is merely a legal one ... one of the better protections of the GPL is preventing proprietary binaries being used in GPL-licensed works... as that would circumvent the whole philosophy of the GPL!
But since the issue is that mali is not the hardware acceleration that we're after... for the sake of clarity, what is? And what is the likelihood of us getting that? Or is it likely that case that Android will be the GPU HW accelerated platform, and linux will be the more lightweight GUI and server platform? This will only remain an issue of contention and confusion until information about this is prominently noted for all to see.