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Not too long ago, we shared fantastic news that Qualcomm had released the Adreno 2xx GPU Binaries for Ice Cream Sandwich. However one thing that we failed to consider was that these precompiled GPU binaries were compatible only with ARMv7 devices.
Sadly, this left many users with older and less powerful ARMv6 devices out in the cold. Due to having less powerful CPUs, these are devices that could stand to benefit greatly from full GPU hardware acceleration in ICS. Not content with sitting idly by, XDA Forum Member sweetnsour quickly saw fit to create a global petition asking Qualcomm to compile and release the necessary Adreno 2xx GPU binaries to get ARMv6 devices up to speed with ICS back on March 17th.
Less than two weeks later, and thanks largely to sweetnsour’s petition efforts, Qualcomm Senior Staff Engineer Dave Astle—otherwise known as XDA Forum Member myopicrhino—lets us know that Qualcomm has shared the goods with the development community. In other words, we now have the proper Adreno 2xx GPU binaries for ICS on ARMv6 devices.
In the words of the Qualcomm Forum Master:
In order to provide enthusiasts with recent improvements made to Snapdragon’s Adreno graphics driver for the 7×27 based on the ARMv6 ISA, Qualcomm has posted the updated Adreno 200 graphics driver binaries here. It has been tested with the Ice Cream Sandwich CAF release M8960AAAAANLYA1030, but Qualcomm is providing these driver binaries “as is” to those of you who have requested them.
Official Release Information:
This release contains the user-mode driver binaries for Qualcomm’s Adreno 2xx GPU on Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich for ARMv6 based chipsets. It has been tested with the CAF release M8960AAAAANLYA1030. Supports any Adreno 2xx GPU on Android ICS using the ARMv6 chipset (7×27). Google’s libRS (LLVM) does not currently support ARMv6.
Well there you have it, folks. Score this as another big win for the development community. And just as before, we would like to extend our gratitude for Qualcomm for playing nicely with the enthusiast / development community. ARMv6 developers looking to get cracking with the new GPU binaries can find what they’re looking for in Qualcomm’s Mobile Gaming and Graphics page or from myopicrhino’s post.
Qualcomm, thank you for once again showing that you care about your users and the Android development community.
[Huge thanks to myopicrhino for the tip!]
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I'm just distribute this news... If this topic has already been disscussed by another people, sorry me and close this thread. Thank you..
Hope developer see this...
Yep . Already dude
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I've been trying to find any documentation on Snapdragon's DSP and hardware based video and audio decoders. So far, nothing. I'm just thinking if it would be possible to cook the support into custom ROM as it is quite ridiculous that decoding something like MP3 or AAC takes any CPU time at all, as according to Qualcomm's web site Snapdragon has hardware support for decoding MP3, AAC and H.264. I take it Qualcomm only provides the documentation to partners, as it is impossible to find?
Hopefully full support for hardware acceleration comes with WM7, if it can not implemented on 6.5. Should be doable with custom driver (in kernel mode) anyway by cooking, provided the documentation is leaked or something.
Mikko.
It's not possible to have the SnapDragon documentation because Qualcomm will never release it.
It's possible instead to have the missing SnapDragon drivers for Linux or I hope for Windows CE only when a QSD based smartbook that will have these drivers will be out.
With Windows Mobile 7 it's a whole new story, new CE7 kernel and support for all the new ARM instructions. I hope that we'll get that things and soon
kholk said:
It's not possible to have the SnapDragon documentation because Qualcomm will never release it.
It's possible instead to have the missing SnapDragon drivers for Linux or I hope for Windows CE only when a QSD based smartbook that will have these drivers will be out.
With Windows Mobile 7 it's a whole new story, new CE7 kernel and support for all the new ARM instructions. I hope that we'll get that things and soon
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That's a waste of potential, but we can only wait (or not? )
you Cant really expect qualcomm to release documents on its IP.
but it would be nice if they and htc worked together to release a dev sdk.
if they are serious about developing the platform then its a step they really do need to make.
if samsung can get a sdk out for the omnia ii then it seems sensible to think htc need to play catchup.. the chipset does have potential,and it appears qualcomm are becoming more dev friendly.
look at what southend have achieved with some decent support from QC..
documentation?
Qualcomm should be giving documentation to ISVs its just a matter of it falling in the wrong(or right) hands. In the meantime, Snapdragon uses ARM Cortex-A9 core and you can find more details here:
http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARMCortex-A9_MPCore.html
Not sure if that includes DSP.
My acer s200 has support for H.263, H.264 out the box =]
Ca5c4d3 said:
Qualcomm should be giving documentation to ISVs its just a matter of it falling in the wrong(or right) hands. In the meantime, Snapdragon uses ARM Cortex-A9 core and you can find more details here:
http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARMCortex-A9_MPCore.html
Not sure if that includes DSP.
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Snapdragon is Cortex A8 based and yes it does have DSP
mightymn said:
Snapdragon is Cortex A8 based and yes it does have DSP
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Do you know are the hardware multimedia decoders really silicon or SIMD/DSP based? From the QC's documentation you get the feeling they are ASIC stuff, but it might be marketing and in reality they are IP cores.
Mikko.
mikolas said:
Do you know are the hardware multimedia decoders really silicon or SIMD/DSP based? From the QC's documentation you get the feeling they are ASIC stuff, but it might be marketing and in reality they are IP cores.
Mikko.
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Nope, don't know that
I see CM7 in the near future...
http://www.androidcentral.com/gingerbread-be-aosp-soon-says-googler
CM is my rom of choice and I appreciate so much everything teamdouche does. But if I had to guess, CM7 is not as close as some people and blog's think. After all, didn't CM6 take several months to arrive after Froyo?
its gonna more like 3 to4 weeks for the first nightly to hit.
Cyanogen re-tweeted it last night so he def' has it on his mind. Can't wait. I just want to see how the new Adreno 200 drivers perform.
Award Tour said:
Cyanogen re-tweeted it last night so he def' has it on his mind. Can't wait. I just want to see how the new Adreno 200 drivers perform.
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Any idea where we can read more about the new Adreno drivers? Does Qualcomm release notes or the drivers themself?
I wish we could simply visit the mfg.'s site, like NVidia, download the souce for compilation. Does Google get the latest source and simply include it in AOSP?
Shidell said:
Any idea where we can read more about the new Adreno drivers? Does Qualcomm release notes or the drivers themself?
I wish we could simply visit the mfg.'s site, like NVidia, download the souce for compilation. Does Google get the latest source and simply include it in AOSP?
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There are no [solid] guarantees for new Adreno drivers but Google specifically stated that there are new graphic drivers via the 2.3 walk through (or whatever it was) on the Android site and since the Nexus One is a Google supported phone, it probably includes the Adreno 200. Nothing specific was said about the improvements.
I don't think it will be in the AOSP source, the devs will probably have to extract it from the new 2.3 Nexus One kernel when it's released.
Hmm. The encouraging factor is that the Evo and the Nexus One use the Adreno 200, so I have faith that the driver update will include the Adreno 200.
The kernel contains drivers for hardware, and Google releases that as part of AOSP, so I imagine they've gotten updated source from Qualcomm and it's bundled in, just like Bluetooth, sound, display, and a wealth of other hardware is.
I just wish we could know what "improvements" have been made and how substantial they (might) be.
Could someone please tell me what this is ?
http://developer.nvidia.com/content/android-40-ics-os-images-tegra-android-available
Just like you, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the public release of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) for NVIDIA® Tegra® Developer Kits. Following the unprecedented speed of the ICS port for the Transformer Prime, NVIDIA is pleased to announce the first public release of Ice Cream Sandwich OS Images for NVIDIA Tegra DevKits.
The installers for the OS Images for Ventana DevKits are available on the Tegra Resources page. For information regarding Cardhu OS Images, please contact your account representative.
For the first time ever, the OS Images are available on OSX as well as Windows and Linux. The release package consists of binary code, drivers developed on our reference platforms and any patches necessary to ensure stability & performance with ICS and our developer tools. Visit the Tegra Resources page for the latest developer tools that support ICS, such as PerfHUD ES.
We welcome your feedback and questions on the Tegra forums.
TEGRA ANDROID OS IMAGES
These OS Images are pre-configured to provide the optimal development experience on Tegra DevKits.
FEATURES
Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Full support for PerfHUD ES 1.9.5, the Open GL ES frame debugging and analysis tool for Tegra.
Full support for PERF and OProfile, CPU profiling tools.
The default value for screen timeout is set to 30 minutes.
Internet permissions for all applications are enabled by default.
Native to Java calls have had JNI checks disabled to mimic production units.
EMEI ID support
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it's for development kits. not us.
I AM NOT THE DEVELOPER OF FREEDRENO AND I'M NOT AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH HIM
Freedreno project on Gitorious
I just found a project on gitorious - an open source alternative to the Qualcomm Adreno driver. Most low and middle end (and older high end) devices use Adreno so I hope this will help our devs costumize the driver.
Ianis G. Vasilev said:
I AM NOT THE DEVELOPER OF FREEDRENO AND I'M NOT AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH HIM
Freedreno project on Gitorious
I just found a project on gitorious - an open source alternative to the Qualcomm Adreno driver. Most low and middle end (and older high end) devices use Adreno and as far as I know Qualcomm didn't release ARMv6 ICS drivers for Adreno, so I hope this will help our devs.
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Qualcomm, did, in fact release ics drivers for armv6.
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Sorry, didn't know. Post updated.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMjU
Samsung Set To Open-Source Parts Of The Exynos
Posted by Michael Larabel on October 22, 2012
It appears that Samsung is preparing to open-source some code pertaining to their Exynos ARM SoC.
At an event this weekend (YouTube stream), Samsung said they will open-source the kernel and platform components of their Exynos SoC. This new code is said to be dual-licensed under the GPLv2 and Apache 2.0 licenses.
Samsung also says it will support ARM Mali GPU driver development, which it uses with its Exynos SoC. It's not known at the moment whether this means supporting the community Lima driver project or something else.
As part of this new open-source initiative, Samsung looks like it will be upping its Linux support for the Origenboard, its primary Exynos development board.
Up to this point for Exynos there's been bits of open-source drivers, like their Exynos DRM driver that is in the mainline Linux kernel but the 3D bits are not covered and they have no open-source user-space for 3D / OpenGL ES coverage.
It will be interesting to see what Samsung ultimately does with their Exynos open-source play since most ARM SoC vendors aren't too open-source friendly up to this point. It was just days ago though that word on the new Google Chromebook emerged, which boasts a Samsung Exynos 5250 SoC with Cortex-A15 cores.
Google certainly does like open-source for their ChromeOS work such as their work on Coreboot support for new hardware and Google's work on open-source graphics drivers for use by their earlier Intel-based Chromebooks.
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We'll see how this plays out. It's not the first time Samsung promised us something.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMjU
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Hi, this is already being discussed in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1925709 . No point posting it twice. Things are not what they seem apparently. Read Entropy512's post on the thread I linked for more information on that.