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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by DannyBee on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @04:04PM (#6175247)
Even other open devices (Firefox phone, Ubuntu Edge) will suffer this fate - they all, AFAIK, will require proprietary blob drivers for the GPU.
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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by wedesoft on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @04:24PM (#6175375)
Intel provides FOSS graphics drivers [1]. I'm not sure though whether they do mobile graphics cards with free software drivers, too.

[1] https://01.org/linuxgraphics/

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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by rincebrain on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @04:42PM (#6175480)
Depends what you mean by "mobile".

The non-Atom chips usually have real Open GPU drivers that work the same as the desktop ones; the Atom chips [AFAIK] are the ones that primarily suffer from being PowerVR-licensed things with badly half-working "open" drivers.

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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by Narishma on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:41PM (#6176416)
Not all Atom chips have PowerVR graphics, though AFAIK all the phone and tablet Atoms do.
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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by zhemao on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @05:14PM (#6175680)
I think the issue here is that Qualcomm won't even allow AOSP to distribute the binary blobs.
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