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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by HeadsUpHigh on Sunday February 17, 2019 @09:17AM (#19184539)
There isn't a single igpu that's used on android phones that has mainline drivers. Pretty much all of them are practically unusable for open source OSes. The most notable exception is adreno which has a more mature reverse engineered driver. Now that their patents expired Qualcomm has contributed a tiny bit too. But other than that the rest still suck.
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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by vetinari on Sunday February 17, 2019 @11:19AM (#19185156)
The Atoms with PowerVR were also put into netbooks, i.e. into a class of hardware, where you would want to install some Linux distribution.
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Re:Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for... by HeadsUpHigh on Sunday February 17, 2019 @11:45AM (#19185316)
Correct but that's still a rather small market compared to e.g. chromebooks which can use anything from arm or qualcomm.
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