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2012-07-03, 05:35
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-03, 09:12 by Shivansps.)
Is the hardware OpenGL ES actually working?
EDIT: nop it still shows the mesa gles renderer...
ANd i cant build mali driver because it says i dont have xorg-macros... it seems like i need to get and compile those too.
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mali has squat to do with hardware decoders. mali is rendering, not decoding.
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2012-07-04, 00:35
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-04, 00:43 by Hans0815.)
Sorry if that question is a bit stupid but i don´t understand some things.
I read something about the Mele A1000, but that isn´t a Allwinner A10, or is it?
I thought it is a ARM Cortex A8 1GHz. And i thought that xbmc is allready ported to ARM or isn´t it?
Or is Allwinner based on ARM? I try to read out a lot but i don´t understand it completly.
Thanks
Edit. By the way. Is the A13 similar to A10? So when it would be possible to run xbmc with an A10 i can run it on an A13 too? Maybe there are some experience by the dev´s allready and someone could give an answer.
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The Allwinner A10 is what's known as a system-on-a-chip (
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ystem on a chip (wiki)). It's a single chip that contains the CPU, GPU, and some other stuff. The CPU part is ARM. A Mele A1000 is a box that uses the Allwinner A10 SoC.
XBMC does indeed have ARM support, but that's just one part of the SoC. The operating system also needs various support for the SoC, and XBMC needs support for the OS.
Another example is Apple's "A4" chip inside the iPhone 4. (this "A" is unrelated to the Allwinner). A4 is their name for their SoC, which contains an ARM CPU.
So think of it as this: Mele A1000 is a planet, Allwinner A10 is a country, and ARM is a city. It's chips inside of chips inside of chips.
As for the A13, I have no idea.
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The A13 is specced as identical to the A10, without an HDMI transiever or PHY.
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I found the j1nx blog some minutes ago. Very interesting.
I tought A13 should be better than A10 but i think thats wrong. A10 has more features so it should be more interesting for me.
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If you want to take a very high-level view, A10 is generally for STBs, A13 for tablets. There are exceptions of course.
I concur with you hans, the A10 is certainly more interesting, particularly Mele's implementation (A1000/2000) as it has all the features exposed.