PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs

Re:PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard ... by kaba0 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:08AM (#26601027)

Is this the GPU the one found in the Pinephone?

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Re:PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard ... by robert_foss on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:34AM (#26601324)

No the panfrost drivers only target Mali 6xx (also know as Midgard) and later GPUs.

I highly doubt the Mali 400 has the hardware required to support Vulkan.

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Re:PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard ... by my123 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:08AM (#26601450)

Mali 400 cannot even support OpenGL ES 3.x, forget about Vulkan on that hardware. Mali-400 is old enough to have separate vertex and fragment shader cores.

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Re:PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard ... by MarcusE1W on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:11AM (#26601043)

Yes, Mali 400 GP2 is used in the Allwinner A64 for the PinePhone

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Re:PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard ... by squarefoot on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:25AM (#26601080)

Does it also support the Mali 400 GPU in Allwinner H3 based boards? There's a huge load of them around, and they are really cheap.

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