3 ms·
From TFA: The FuryGPU is set to be open-sourced. “I am intending on open-sourcing the entire stack (PCB schematic/layout, all the HDL, Windows WDDM drivers, AP
by SushiHippie 3y ago
From TFA:
The FuryGPU is set to be open-sourced. “I am intending on open-sourcing the entire stack (PCB schematic/layout, all the HDL, Windows WDDM drivers, API runtime drivers, and Quake ported to use the API) at some point, but there are a number of legal issues,” Barrie wrote in a Hacker News post [0] on Wednesday.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745
- nolongerthere 3y agoRight it’s those legal issues that I’m trying to understand, the article says he used off-the-shelf parts which usually means encumbrances. I initially thought this was like risc-v where he’d done ALL the work, which seemed insane, the amount of work it appears he did is also crazy for a single person to do. I was just curious on how much was his own.
- wildzzz 3y agoHe mentioned something about his job possibly being a hindrance to releasing everything as open source. This guy has been in the video game industry for a long time so there's a chance he does similar graphics work as a day job and there could be crossover technical details that his employer might take offense to. The hardware itself is just a Zynq Ultrascale+ module attached to a custom board, probably using reference designs from the various component manufacturers so I doubt there's an issue releasing that. Those Zynq modules are not cheap so this is still definitely a toy and not anything useful for everyday computing. You could buy a RTX 4060 Ti for probably less than the price of the entire FuryGPU hardware stack.