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> 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 mob

> 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 ago
Why 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 ago
  The problem is not reverse engineering, but having to reverse engineer.
  - leeoniya 6y ago
    i 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.
    - pabs3 6y ago
      The VC4 (RPi GPU) drivers were written by an open source contributor (Eric Anholt) who was employed by Broadcom to do that.
      - ris 6y ago
        After many many years of petition from the community to even release documentation on the VC4.