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> Mali is every bit as proprietary as Nvidia. I don't think anyone was claiming it isn't. I think GP's (and his GP) point is that ARM /usually/ makes the infor
by hda2 5y ago
> Mali is every bit as proprietary as Nvidia.
I don't think anyone was claiming it isn't. I think GP's (and his GP) point is that ARM /usually/ makes the information needed to develop high quality open source drivers available where as Nvidia tends to do the opposite.
Whether these technologies are proprietary or not is orthogonal to this issue.
- stefan_ 5y agoBut it absolutely doesn't, that is the point. There is no register level documentation or documentation for the instruction set the chips use. There is no pertinent architecture documentation at all. Having a list of performance counters does not equal documentation.