Someone could use this SBC -- not as an SBC, but as a discrete video card...
That is, have a computer without a video card -- communicate with this SBC via USB or Ethernet -- and have it perform all of the functions of a video card to generate the display output...
After all, it's got quite a high power GPU in it...
Yes, it would be a bit slower than a PCIe based high-end graphics card... this idea is for experimentation only.
One idea, once this is done, is to decouple the GUI part of any Operating System you write -- and have that part, and that part alone, run on the SBC / GPU.
Yes, X-Windows/X11 already exists and can do something like this.
But if say, you (as an OS designer) felt that X-Windows was too complex and bloated, and you wanted to implement something similar to Windows' GUI -- but a lighter version, and decoupled from the base Operating System -- then what I've outlined above might be one way to set things up while the coding is occurring...
Again, doing something like this would be for people that wanted to experiment, only...
Someone could use this SBC -- not as an SBC, but as a discrete video card...
That is, have a computer without a video card -- communicate with this SBC via USB or Ethernet -- and have it perform all of the functions of a video card to generate the display output...
After all, it's got quite a high power GPU in it...
Yes, it would be a bit slower than a PCIe based high-end graphics card... this idea is for experimentation only.
One idea, once this is done, is to decouple the GUI part of any Operating System you write -- and have that part, and that part alone, run on the SBC / GPU.
Yes, X-Windows/X11 already exists and can do something like this.
But if say, you (as an OS designer) felt that X-Windows was too complex and bloated, and you wanted to implement something similar to Windows' GUI -- but a lighter version, and decoupled from the base Operating System -- then what I've outlined above might be one way to set things up while the coding is occurring...
Again, doing something like this would be for people that wanted to experiment, only...