Re:Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6
by andrewstuart on Thursday July 06, 2023 @07:27PM
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Closed source.
That’s just crazy. If there’s anything a minor GPU player needs its community support.
Crazy is that they were aggressively anti-foss even with their drivers not too long ago. Intel graphics usually has good Linux support, except for GMA500 which was based on Imagination tech. N900 was the Linux darling phone, and the graphics drivers where god-awful buggy blob from Imagination. And so on..
For a company who historically has mostly made GPUs for phones and set-top boxes, I don't think that's true. People don't usually program these devices at this level. Especially in the case of all the hardware they did for Apple, no requirements to be open there.
Maybe these days that's changing but it's a big change for a company like this to embrace.
Note that these GPU's are widely used in (mostly low end) phones, and I think power the UI in some other household items with screens. They provided iPhone GPU's till 2017 (and there is debate if Apples new GPU might contain some imagination tech)