Wednesday, February 17, 2010

MBX/3D drivers out for N8x0 (and other OMAP2)

In other news, the drivers was uploaded to TI extranet yesterday - this is something people have waited for, for a long time. And you need to create a TI (my.ti.com) account for this. For those who want to have access the SDK need to send a mail to gamingonomap@list.ti.com stating your need for the SDK mentioned below.

You need to then click "Extranets" on my.ti.com and then WTBU-OMAP Gaming SDK and then OpenGL®ES Graphics SDK for OMAP2420 Nokia N800 OpenGL ES v1.1 and OpenVG 1.0 SDK based on Linux kernel 2.6.21

A fair warning: These drivers are not for the weak at heart. You need to flash a new kernel. You may need to fix up some build scripts and run some mysterious commands. They will not work that easily out of box.

While I kinda assume this will be drowned out in Meego announcements and discussion, well, I got the mail last night

Thanks to qwerty12, javispedro, lardman, the TI guys (Girish, Ameet) and the Nokians helping out to make this reality and others.

8 comments:

  1. Are those drivers OSS or is this just a binary blob ?

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  2. This is very exciting news, many thanks for the work you and the rest have done to get the drivers out.

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  3. Drivers (kernel) are OSS, libraries closed source, but comes with debug symbols.

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  4. I understand that they are not for final consumption right now. However, are they free (as in beer) for distribution. I.e., can we think of a Mer image release with these inside?

    Very good news... we have been looking forward for them

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  5. Indeed it is very exciting news! Yes, thank you all who have worked hard at getting this to happen.

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  6. awesome ! Hope to see a mer image using it soon :D

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