[Open-graphics] Re: Patents

[Timothy Miller]

On 9/6/06, Dieter <netbsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote:
> > Traversal is going to be subject to many of these concerns.
>
> Timothy, any thoughts on using a DSP?

In place of OGA or as an add-on?

There have been many discussions about using DSPs.  They can do almost
none of the major features of OGA, and those that it can do (like the
rendering), it would be unacceptably slow, no matter how fast it's
clocked.

As an add-on, I'd rather not deal with the integration problems this
time.  Perhaps for OGA2, we can do things like that (put a DSP bus on
the ASIC), but for now, that's biting off more than we can chew and
making things unnecessarily expensive for the common case.