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I don't know much about ARM SoC ecosystems for Linux, but am I correct if I take this as a direct ARM Mali version of Nouveau, or it's slightly different? I'm

I don't know much about ARM SoC ecosystems for Linux, but am I correct if I take this as a direct ARM Mali version of Nouveau, or it's slightly different? I'm very surprised that ARM, the company that should provide proper software references for its ecosystem, is not open source friendly.

djsumdog 7y ago
There is no actual ARM platform, like in the case of a PC. (Intel x86/64 is not a platform. You can find an x86 compatible chip in a PS4, but it's missing all of the critical components that let it boot like a PC. See the Fail0ver video on PS4 kernel hacking for more info). ARM chips are just System-on-Chips with random pins soldered to random shit and broken, non-upstreamable kernels that are only released after a phone has been out for like 6 months. It's a shit system for any type of truly open development: https://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/ https://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/
- makomk 7y ago
  This is actually useful though - it's not a full equivalent of Noveau because it doesn't include video output support of any kind and that tends to be vendor-specific hardware, but people have already got the necessary video out support for a bunch of cheap hardware with ARM Mali GPUs into mainline Linux and this was the missing link for full accelerated graphics support.