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    Mupen64plus on OMAP4 - Pandaboard performance

    @Alerino Ye, I know what you mean. And they ALWAYS have 0 boards in stock ! You need to place an order to get one. If I am correct, the processing of an order will take about 1 - 2 weeks now. Then they will send it. ( I got mine on the second try. The first order was canceled - waited 60 days...
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    Mupen64plus on OMAP4 - Pandaboard performance

    Hello guys. I am very pleased with the performance of Pandora software. I was able to get mupen64plus-arm + gles2n64 plugin working on my Pandabord Rev A2 ( OMAP4430 ) and, damn, it works better then I expected. Games just work, there are not so many glitches and the speed is awesome. Really...
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    New hope regarding the graphics driver?

    Well, that's a hell amount of engines. There is also GLES driver for pcsx_rearmed, gles2n64 plugin for mupen64plus ( which is awesome ! looks good with Turok 2 ) and few others I don't know about. Most of the new games that are built with GLES2 support in mind are for Android and have nothing...
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    SGX to offload video decoding ?

    @Exophase: Quick, hard-hitting statement as always. Thanks for replay So for decoding I will still need to stick to ARMv7-a, VFP, NEON and IVA ( IVV, you meant IVA, didn't you ? ) then. No SGX. Does it mean IMG lies or is that normal in IT world ? I knew SGX could do colour conversation (...
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    SGX to offload video decoding ?

    Hello, I don't know if it has been asked before, but I would like to ask anyway. I have seen a number of online documents, stating that SGX can offload video decoding from the main processor. ( Well, it is not that surprising, considering that all desktop GPUs can do this. ) After googling a...
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    New hope regarding the graphics driver?

    Don't you want to be able to play any new open source game you come across on the net ? Nearly all of open source game engines DO NOT support OpenGL ES. And I know for sure that all of people here want OpenGL 2 or 3 support and not just GLES1, GLES2, EGL. The SGX family would easily handle...
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    Use of GPU on OMAP, drivers and their status

    Thanks Exophase - nice explanation. You mean DSS, don't you ? EDIT: I have just seen it myself. This page explains its features: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/arm/OMAP/DSS Awesome, I don't need to worry about scaling and color conversation then. I think there are at least...
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    Use of GPU on OMAP, drivers and their status

    First of all - it is good to see that now people are slowly getting their units :D ( I am not getting a unit, unfortunately, due to personal reasons. However it surely feels great that now more devs will get their devices and start coding, so people like me, who have ordered Pand...abord, will...
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    Hackers obtain PS3 private cryptography key due to epic programming fail?

    O, it is not even close to be a powerhouse, believe me ( someone who actually runs linux on PS3 up to now :P ). The main CPU can be seen just as a 64-bit in-order single-core double-threaded IBM POWER5+ processor, clocked at 3.2GHz, with very weak AltiVec ( Velocity engine ). And honestly it...
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    OpenGL problems ahead?

    I can't believe ... There is neither Xvideo nor Xorg driver for PowerVR ! ( At least open-source. ) By judging from DRI site: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/PowerVR there is no 2D/3D acceleration in Xorg. Does it mean that I have no choice but to get closed-source binaries ?
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    OpenGL problems ahead?

    The strange thing is that there is now a large number of Android/Maemo/Mac powered devices and they got incredible popularity. Plus there are open-source things like Pandora. The demand of applications on these OMAP3 devices must be very high. And of course people want to play games on their...
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    GBA emulation

    Agreed. I see absolutely no reason why any game on GBA would be slow, even on ~200 MHz :blink: : 1) Frequency of the original machine is just 16.8 MHz ! 2) The original CPU is ... try to guess ... ARM also. ( Same arch - no arch emulation is supposed to take place. The version of CPU...
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    Using pandora as a regular Ubuntu computer.

    But the main idea is correct. OpenGL is not as related to ARM core as it is related to PowerVR. We are talking about arches here. And there is a funny thing. Yes, ARM is in development phase. But PowerPC ... Are there any people who still use their old G3, G4, G5 ? Because the arch is...
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    Using pandora as a regular Ubuntu computer.

    Nope. Repositories contain practically equal number of packages for each arch. Even an obsolete PowerPC has got an amount of debs which is very close to that of i386, amd64. The difference is like about 100 - 1000 packages for each 30000 or so packages for each arch. ( Went to Launchpad/Ubuntu )...
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    Using pandora as a regular Ubuntu computer.

    No, you can. :D ( At least the hardware can easily handle it. I would prefer having LXDE/XFCE over Gnome/KDE though, for the sake of free memory. So, you better try Lubuntu/Xubuntu. But even Gnome shouldn't be a real problem. PS3, which has even less available to linux RAM - 221 in my case...
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