[Bf-gamedev] GSOC proposal? ES rasterizer + Raspberry Pi

[Arnaud Loonstra]

It would definitely pave the way. I haven't played with Parrallela 
(yet). I'm naming Raspberry Pi on purpose since it is a very minimal 
platform with good drivers. The idea is to have a general openGL ES 
rasterizer so the gameengine could run on embedded hardware. If it'll 
run linux and ES there should no reason why it shouldn't work.

Rg,

Arnaud

On 03/13/2014 09:39 PM, Jacob Merrill wrote:
> Would this allow blender to run on a Parallela?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Arnaud Loonstra <arnaud at sphaero.org
> <mailto:arnaud at sphaero.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     I was wondering if a proposal like the following would be suitable for
>     GSOC? I've followed a template found on wiki.blender.org
>     <http://wiki.blender.org>
>
>     Any comments/feedback?
>
>     Rg,
>
>     Arnaud.
>
>     Name
>
>           Arnaud Loonstra
>
>     Email / IRC / WWW
>
>           Email: arnaud at z25.org <mailto:arnaud at z25.org>
>           IRC: sphaero_z25
>           WWW: http://www.z25.org / http://www.sphaero.org
>           GIT: http://github.com/sphaero
>
>     Additional Contact Info
>
>     Phone: later
>
>     Physical Address:
>           Concordiastraat 67a
>           3551EM Utrecht
>           The Netherlands
>
>     Synopsis
>
>           OpenGL ES Rasterizer for Game Engine. Raspberry PI support for
>           game engine.
>
>     Benefits to Blender
>
>           With an OpenGL ES Rasterizer the game engine can target embedded
>     hardware like the Raspberry PI or Beagleboard. Also the ES rasterizer is
>     a first requirement for getting support for Android.
>
>     Deliverables
>
>           The blenderplayer will run on the Raspberry PI based using
>     standard
>     openGLES. Standard .blend files run natively.
>
>     Project Details
>
>           A more detailed description.
>
>     Project Schedule
>
>           I'm not sure how much work this will require but the work can
>           be  based on the previous attempt to port the Blenderplayer
>           to Android.
>           * researching the current openGL rasterizer
>           * setting up a dev environment solely focused on the Blenderplayer
>           * Initial openGLES porting on x86(_64)
>           * Initial ARM porting
>           * Full openGL ES ARM port
>           * porting shaders
>           * wrapping up/finalizing documentation
>
>           I do expect to be on vacation for 3 weeks. But this will only
>           mean I can't be online fulltime.
>
>     Bio
>
>           I'm Arnaud Loonstra currently doing a Master study in Media
>     Technology at the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science
>     (LIACS). I've been involved in Blender since around 2000 and since the
>     2.5 release this has progressed to working with the source of Blender as
>     well. Many example projects from the Z25 Foundation I have done with
>     Blender. I'm mostly interested in realtime applications with Blender
>     therefore my focus is on the Game Engine. In the past I've written a
>     Blenderplayer for the Raspberry PI using OpenFrameworks. I have
>     submitted some minor bug reports and patches to Blender (GE) but nothing
>     really substantive. I'm an experienced C and Python programmer although
>     I'll admit that openGL ES is an area I've only recently touched upon.
>
>
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