[Freedreno] [GSoC-15] Enabling Freedreno on Android

[Nicolas Dechesne]

Emil,

sorry about the delay, was off-line a bit..

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i think we can target to get graphics, video playback (and maybe
>> audio), WLAN and BT to work with an open source AOSP based build, but
>> it will start to be tricky for things like camera, GPS at least...
> Any particular reason on the wording "... to work with AOSP _based_
> ...". Do you know of (m)any obstacles wrt getting things back into the
> AOSP project ? Is it that hard for non Google employees and/or
> partners to get things up-streamed ? Can you share your experience on
> the topic (or link to a blog/other) ? Thanks !

the meaning of my sentence was to work with AOSP, instead of working
with the downstream 'CAF' version of the AOSP. CAF is what has been
pointed out earlier, as the place where Android for Snapdragon can be
found. So the recommendation was just to use/focus on the upstream
AOSP, and if needed contribute to it. I wasn't implying there are any
issues with contributing on AOSP , and actually I don't know if there
are any, since I am not involved there.

>
> On the side of video playback, WLAN, BT, etc. I fully agree that
> having those out and accessible will be great. Although as Rob
> mentioned this might be out of the scope in the project.

right, this is obivously not about graphics.. i was just trying to
list the things we should be able to achieve without any proprietary
pieces (though they require binary firmware for the co-processors).

cheers
nico