[Tinkerphones] PowerVR (was Re: Librem 5)

[Paul Boddie]

On Saturday 28. October 2017 13.33.17 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
> But I just found this morning:
> 
> 	https://community.imgtec.com/developers/powervr/documentation/
> 
> This looks to be very important (dated 07 Apr 2017):
> 
> 	http://cdn.imgtec.com/sdk-
documentation/PowerVR+Instruction+Set+Reference.pdf
> 
> I haven't spent time to look through the other material, but it looks as
> if IMG has become much more open!

While I was examining the ImgTec and MIPS Web sites now that they are separate 
entities again, I stumbled across this blog post from almost exactly three 
years ago:

https://www.imgtec.com/blog/our-powervr-graphics-sdk-is-now-on-github/

The GitHub repositories are still fairly active, it would appear. For example:

https://github.com/powervr-graphics/Native_SDK

I mention this because some of the documentation might also be present in the 
repository above, and there is also code that is MIT-licensed. I cannot say 
whether this adds any more pieces to the puzzle.

Paul

P.S. I was also amused by one of the comments responding to someone suggesting 
that ImgTec might embrace Free Software. How wonderful it was to have "90% of 
their valuation" from Apple, so why bother cooperating with any kind of 
community? Well, we all know how well that turned out, business genius!