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It's a given that NVIDIA's Tegra 3 (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/23/nvidia-officially-brands-tegra-3s-five-core-quad-core-architect/) can handle 3D -- unless you've been crafting a fully open source project around the chip, at which point you've been stuck in a flat world. Fresh contributions from Avionic Design's Thierry Reding have brought that extra dimension back, albeit in limited form. His early patches for the Linux (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Linux/) kernel enable support for 3D when using the Tegra Direct Rendering Manager driver. There's also a matching Gallium3D driver for us regular users, although it's still young: it can run reference 3D code as of a recent check, but can't produce visible imagery. While it may take some months before everything falls into place, the officially-backed work should make the (slightly aging) chip that much more useful beyond the realms of Android (http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/02/htc-one-x-review/) and Windows RT (http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/microsoft-surface-rt-review/).
Filed under: Cellphones (http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/), Tablets (http://www.engadget.com/category/tablets/), Mobile (http://www.engadget.com/category/mobile/), NVIDIA (http://www.engadget.com/category/nvidia/)
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Via: Phoronix (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_tegra_3d&num=1)
Source: Freedesktop.org (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-April/036871.html), Github (https://github.com/grate-driver/mesa/commit/b33282cb998321786217c0026f9a17a0ba48abb5)
Via: Engadget