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Reading from the blogs that there are a couple of features they care about, and both are available as extensions in the SGX544. So it might just need some minor changes to use those extensions. (The big feature seemed to be uniform buffer objects)...

Ed: if somebody comes up with a way to work without this chip, can it be switched off with no power or latency cost? I like the idea of 1080p as I think it sounds good spec wise, but the screen is pretty awesome on my nexus 4, so I can't imagine this one will be bad, and if we can eliminate...

Notaz, have you tried things like http://omappedia.org/wiki/Bootargs_for_enabling_display ? I know it's OMAP4 specific, but it seems to give an example of what the end goal is - assuming that omapfb is fine for what you want in terms of framebuffer. It seems to be the right thing. The...

I had a look on the net and people seem to use the same hardware on the omap4 for HDMI output under android. Maybe worth looking at? After all, in terms of mirroring a display it seems like it's raison d'etre

Hi Notaz, The TILER hardware seems a bit nuts if it has to be accessed this way - have you asked TI if there is a better way/non-obvious way of accessing it? I've been trying to read the TRM, but it all sounds a bit non-obvious, so I guess you've already done the experimentation! I was kind of...

Toejam and Earl (thank god for savestates!) Metal Slug X I tend to play graphics adventures on my phone instead (the touchscreen is a bit easier - it's an N900) and I plan to complete Zak McKracken at some point, as well as Final Fantasy 7, but that one seems a bit painful to play on both...

I actually own an N900 (and am waiting patiently for my Pandora). The N900 has a very nice OS - I'm not looking forward to trying to use an X desktop on a tiny screen tapping with a stylus. I don't exactly have the shakes, but some of the N900 ports with tiny buttons are a pain to hit with a...

Have a look at maemo-mapper It does this sort of thing for maemo - it is meant to have voice navigation, but I haven't (yet) figured out how to make it work.

I think that the OMAP3630 clocks at 196 or there abouts. No idea about the Galaxy though. I think we looked at this a while ago and I posted a link and everything ;)

Not as expensive as it sounds. Google gives me £230 for $349 in UKP. Nobody gets those rates (obviously) as you have to pay commission and so on and there are various other costs, but it gives you a starting point. 17.5% VAT (that's today) adds £40.25 to that figure. So on a (somewhat...

To be fair, there was a big difference between the debates pre-Greece (and Spain, and Portugal) and afterwards. Of course, the problem is that political parties find it very difficult to say what they feel without being evasive. The problem with cuts is that it is a hugely critical word - what...

Sorry, they're very different processors. RISC is a design philosophy, not an instruction set. ARM is the instruction set in the Pandora case, SH in the Dreamcast case. As well as this, very few games apparently used WinCE directly, writing more directly to the raw machine, which was quite a...

That one is easy to handle though, to be fair - after all, most compilers do this in their sleep. The PS2 has far harder problems - the big one that is hard is that it has weird floating point. There are no NaNs, and there is no infinity. Thus you have several unpleasant choices. 1) Ignore...

Retrogamer. I don't think you'd need to advertise it that much either - I think they will be more than happy to review it when it comes out. A handheld Amiga, Spectrum, SNES, Megadrive etc would pretty much sell itself to the crowd of people who read it, especially for the older computer...

I think it pretty much shows that the OMAP4 will have substantially better graphics performance than the OMAP3 - if they hold the same clockspeeds (~x2) and fit a 540 rather than a 530 you'd be looking at a rough quadrupling of performance. (Although of course, nothing is ever *that* simple) I...

Could it refer to front-to-back rendering as well? ie, perform the Z-check but not the texture sample?

The 3630 actually has a better clock. This might also be the case for the 720Mhz versions of the 3530 - but I don't know http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/61019/ I don't exactly know what the difference is between the 3530 and the 3430, other than the name - maybe it is just an SKU?

It would have been nice - but obviously they are limited to what TI (and other companies) provide. If companies start to push up graphics performance, then you might find they increase the performance in the OMAP4. From cursory readings, the 720Mhz one is faster than the bog standard one, as it...

Could you do fixed point? The OMAP has a lot more fixed point power than FP power, just by virtue of the fact that it can do 4x32 ints/clock on NEON as opposed to just 2x32 floats/clock? I don't know if there is much of a point though.

It's not quite as simple as that. A DSP is good at doing lots of (certain kinds of) maths very quickly. An FPGA can be whatever you want it to be (within some limitations). For example, if you wanted to make a CPU with an instruction that swapped every pair of bits around (so 100111 became...