Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost

Re:Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost by someperson on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:40AM (#27500556)

I found this interesting YouTube talk from a few months ago titled "Open drivers for Arm GPUs" from the author of this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCGVzkSIpg&list=PLZjq3una5S...

The key thing about open-source drivers is they retain compatibility with newer Linux kernels, and receive bug fixes and improvements long after the original vendor has lost interest. This reduces e-waste and allows system integrators (like Google with Chromebooks) to easily maintain their hardware far longer than Broadcom, Qualcomm and ARM itself ever would.

It's great that shipping open-source drivers over the proprietary one is fast becoming the norm not the outlier. And this change is not because of hippie free software ideals, but because of cold-hearted business reasons.

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Re:Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost by IntelMiner on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:25AM (#27502891)

I was surprised to find a while back that Google's now ancient "Nexus 7" tablet is allegedly able to run a mainline Linux kernel!

Unfortunately the one I built and "flashed" to it never booted and I lack the soldering skills to build the modified headphone connector/serial TTL cable thing it needs, so it sits in my drawer unused

I really wish we could get to a better upstream ecosystem with ARM devices but it just never seems to happen

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Re:Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost by megous on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:13PM (#27506087)

You don't need soldering skills, just by a jack with screws.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10000133366659.html

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Re:Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost by rjsw on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:30AM (#27502968)

Is the headphone/serial cable the same as those used on Pine64 products ? You may be able to buy one for fairly low cost.

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Re:Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost by rjsw on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:28AM (#27502933)

Is Broadcom bad at this ? I thought the VC4 (RPi) DRM code was officially supported by them.

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Re:Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost by Narishma on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:20PM (#27509071)

They (or maybe the Raspberry Pi foundation, not exactly sure which) were paying someone to work on the open source Mesa driver. Not sure if that's still the case.

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