Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by caf » Tue, May 14, 2019, 12:09 PM UTC

Open source Mali GPU drivers merged
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Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by Jonnax » Tue, May 14, 2019, 12:46 PM UTC

What devices can be used with these drivers?

The message says there's two drivers:

"Lima covers the older t4xx and panfrost the newer 6xx/7xx series"

My perception is that Mali GPUs were just in Android phones where running where it's generally not possible to run a vanilla kernel or the bootloader is locked.

Any dev boards?

Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by viraptor » Tue, May 14, 2019, 12:51 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #2

What devices can be used with these drivers? The message says there's two drivers: "Lima covers the older t4xx and panfrost the newer 6xx/7xx series" My perception is that Mali GPUs were just in Android phones where running where it's generally not possible to run a vanilla kernel or the bootloader is locked. Any dev boards?

I believe lots of things based on allwinner are potentially affected here. Orangepi and bananapi for example.

Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by fuzzy2 » Tue, May 14, 2019, 12:51 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #2

What devices can be used with these drivers? The message says there's two drivers: "Lima covers the older t4xx and panfrost the newer 6xx/7xx series" My perception is that Mali GPUs were just in Android phones where running where it's generally not possible to run a vanilla kernel or the bootloader is locked. Any dev boards?

It may be relevant for stuff like LineageOS.

Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by snvzz » Tue, May 14, 2019, 12:52 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #2

What devices can be used with these drivers? The message says there's two drivers: "Lima covers the older t4xx and panfrost the newer 6xx/7xx series" My perception is that Mali GPUs were just in Android phones where running where it's generally not possible to run a vanilla kernel or the bootloader is locked. Any dev boards?

From the top of my head, there's the ones based on Allwinner SoCs, which by now have decent mainline support[0], such as the cubieboard line and the pine64.

[0] https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by ddtaylor » Tue, May 14, 2019, 12:52 PM UTC

This should help a bit with the wave of new Pi-based emulation boards that are being used.

Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by thanatos519 » Tue, May 14, 2019, 1:00 PM UTC

Hopefully this gets us closer to better-than-OpenGL-ES support on the Gemini PDA which has an 8xx.

Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by neilv » Tue, May 14, 2019, 1:01 PM UTC

I'm not sure these exact GPUs are supported yet, but this sounds like good news for mainline Linux on Samsung smartphone hardware: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/index.php?search=mali&title=Sp...

Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by qhwudbebd » Tue, May 14, 2019, 1:01 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #2

What devices can be used with these drivers? The message says there's two drivers: "Lima covers the older t4xx and panfrost the newer 6xx/7xx series" My perception is that Mali GPUs were just in Android phones where running where it's generally not possible to run a vanilla kernel or the bootloader is locked. Any dev boards?

Handy for a lot of the Rockchip boards which are now pretty much completely sorted with mainline kernels. RK3399 boards in particular are capable and interesting.

Re: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

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Post by Const-me » Tue, May 14, 2019, 1:03 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #2

What devices can be used with these drivers? The message says there's two drivers: "Lima covers the older t4xx and panfrost the newer 6xx/7xx series" My perception is that Mali GPUs were just in Android phones where running where it's generally not possible to run a vanilla kernel or the bootloader is locked. Any dev boards?

Asus TinkerBoard is based on this SoC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchip_RK3288