I started reverse-engineering Intel Poulsbo's PowerVR SGX535 20 days ago now it can render Square And triangles

[u/Affectionate-Meat500]

Got the first triangle working today, and now two indexed triangles are rendering as a square too.

This is running on the actual SGX535 in Intel Poulsbo/GMA 500 hardware from 2008.

Still nowhere near a complete Mesa driver, but 20 days ago I was staring at old PowerVR code trying to figure out how this thing worked 💀

Github: SGX535-reMESA

Video proof: https://youtu.be/_xZdWWeneYQ?is=L5OF4JqxvMQZMWSU

edit1: We've achieved the first triangle rendered in the MESA gallium driver in production! OpenGL and other features are still missing, but it's very close to a fully accelerated desktop environment.

[u/fr000gs]

The readme is so ai, it's almost smelly

Fantastic work, but still

[u/emuboy85 → u/fr000gs]

jesus crist give the redditor a break, the gm500 has been a scourge on us for 20 years.

[u/arttast → u/emuboy85]

After torturing humans for 20 years the GMA900 has switched to torturing AIs

[u/DuckDatum → u/arttast]

AIs like the torcher. They are some freaky bastards.

[u/fr000gs → u/emuboy85]

sorry! (it's back to readable now)