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> Mali is terrible care to elaborate? the Panfrost project has reverse engineered a bunch of popular Mali ISAs and now there's hardware support on the kernel
by leeoniya 6y ago
> Mali is terrible
care to elaborate?
the Panfrost project has reverse engineered a bunch of popular Mali ISAs and now there's hardware support on the kernel for VA-API on these chips.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Panfrost https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Panfrost
- axaxs 6y agoMali has never come close to Adreno. Simple as that.
- segfaultbuserr 6y ago> has reverse engineered a bunch of popular Mali ISAs As a FOSS user and developer, this is already a big problem to me. Although the situation of Nvidia's mobile GPUs (e.g. Tegra) is a bit better than desktop GPUs, but not much better.
- ac29 6y agoWhy is it a problem for there to be additional hardware usable with open source drivers? Or is it that it was reverse engineered?
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoThe problem is not reverse engineering, but having to reverse engineer.
- leeoniya 6y agoi should have clarified that i was asking why Mali is more terrible than Adreno, MediaTek, etc. AFAIK, all embedded GPU drivers have to be reverse engineered and none are open source. as you mentioned, it looks like Tegra might have some open-source contrib from the mfg.