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Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by revelation on Thursday January 18, 2018 @08:31AM (#16176898)
From our contact from the Etnaviv developers we know that they are heavily working on the i.MX8M support so we can expect that Etnaviv will be working on it within the year.

What exactly are people funding Librem for if not to actually work on the most crucial component, the GPU driver?

I guess it doesn't really matter because if they want to have any hope of delivering they will be knee deep into Mesa and DRM before they know it. This isn't a blob you just copy into /vendor.

But their lax attitude kind of spells doom for the chances of this crowdfunding project.

Edit: whoops, they don't even want to use Android! But judging from their mockup renders they expect to have something just as good.

Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by kuschku on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:44AM (#16177922)
> Edit: whoops, they don't even want to use Android! But judging from their mockup renders they expect to have something just as good.

Their mockup renders were with actual software – the KDE and Gnome desktops already support mobile natively, and there’s more and more software for these environments available as well.

Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by craftyguy on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:41AM (#16178489)
> Edit: whoops, they don't even want to use Android! But judging from their mockup renders they expect to have something just as good.

By not using Android, they automatically have something better.