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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 o

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.