[Gnash] OpenGl for Embedded Systems!!!

[gharbi taoufik]

Hi Rob,

 

Do you know OpenGL for Embdded systems;

please see http://www.khronos.org/developers/specs/

 

Could this not be an alternative for libMesa

 

Yours

Gharbi 

Rob Savoye <address@hidden> schrieb:

> gharbi taoufik wrote:
>
> > CPU Ti OMAP 1710 @ 206 MHz from Texas instruments with ARM9 core
> > and 32 MB Ram
> > based on 2.4.20 kernel Linux (Montavista Distribution)
> > the command "uname -a" displays the following output:
>
> > 1- Is this (building gnash) in general possible? or I' m dreaming too 
> > much :-)
>
> If you had OpenGL, Gnash should build for this architecture. My gut 
> feeling is this would be too underpowered to run
>  OpenGL adequately 
> unless you have a pretty good graphics processor, or do very simple 
> movies without much animation.
>
> This is the main reason I want to replace the OpenGL backend with a 
> framebuffer one... This would be a great project for somebody, but it's 
> going to take awhile before I have the chance to do this. Once Gnash has 
> good backend framebuffer support, then you wouldn't need OpenGL. 
> Typically system like this only have framebuffer support and no real 
> graphics processor.
>
> One of the goals of Gnash is to run on truly embedded systems like 
> this so it can be used for the GUI. Right now our priorities are 
> stabling Gnash (this is a new project, and under heavy development), 
> implementing critical functionality, and attempting to beat the Firefox 
> plugin into shape. So for now, "embedded GNU/Linux" translates to about 
> 800Mhz Pentium class processor with some hardware acceleration support. 
> I have used the i810 and i815
>  as the low end of what works as a graphics 
> processor, although the this graphics processors has major bugs with 
> it's DRI implementation and leaks memory bad...
>
> > 2- What is about the required libs (OpenGL, SDL, SDL_mixer, JPEG and so on)?
> > I mean what should i consider while building the libs, or is there any 
> > advices based on experiences regarding also libs building.
>
> This is all in the Gnash manual. There is an entire section on 
> dependencies.
>
> > 3- Until now I've build with success (I think and i hope) the following 
> > libs for the environment mentioned above in a normal linux environment 
>
> Libmesa is the free implementation of OpenGL. Since Gnash uses the 
> GNU autotools, you should be able to cross compile it with no problem. 
> You just have to set --host, --build, and --target appropriately when 
> configuring.
>
> -rob -

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