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I found this interesting YouTube talk from a few months ago titled "Open drivers for Arm GPUs" from the author of this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

I found this interesting YouTube talk from a few months ago titled "Open drivers for Arm GPUs" from the author of this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCGVzkSIpg&list=PLZjq3una5SrBQ4J1erd88Cs3cA0GvUY4W&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCGVzkSIpg&list=PLZjq3una5S... The key thing about open-source drivers is they retain compatibility with newer Linux kernels, and receive bug fixes and improvements long after the original vendor has lost interest. This reduces e-waste and allows system integrators (like Google with Chromebooks) to easily maintain their hardware far longer than Broadcom, Qualcomm and ARM itself ever would. It's great that shipping open-source drivers over the proprietary one is fast becoming the norm not the outlier. And this change is not because of hippie free software ideals, but because of cold-hearted business reasons.

IntelMiner 5y ago
I was surprised to find a while back that Google's now ancient "Nexus 7" tablet is allegedly able to run a mainline Linux kernel! Unfortunately the one I built and "flashed" to it never booted and I lack the soldering skills to build the modified headphone connector/serial TTL cable thing it needs, so it sits in my drawer unused I really wish we could get to a better upstream ecosystem with ARM devices but it just never seems to happen
- rjsw 5y ago
  Is the headphone/serial cable the same as those used on Pine64 products ? You may be able to buy one for fairly low cost.
- megous 5y ago
  You don't need soldering skills, just by a jack with screws. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10000133366659.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10000133366659.html
rjsw 5y ago
Is Broadcom bad at this ? I thought the VC4 (RPi) DRM code was officially supported by them.
- Narishma 5y ago
  They (or maybe the Raspberry Pi foundation, not exactly sure which) were paying someone to work on the open source Mesa driver. Not sure if that's still the case.

IntelMiner 5y ago

I was surprised to find a while back that Google's now ancient "Nexus 7" tablet is allegedly able to run a mainline Linux kernel! Unfortunately the one I built and "flashed" to it never booted and I lack the soldering skills to build the modified headphone connector/serial TTL cable thing it needs, so it sits in my drawer unused I really wish we could get to a better upstream ecosystem with ARM devices but it just never seems to happen

rjsw 5y ago
Is the headphone/serial cable the same as those used on Pine64 products ? You may be able to buy one for fairly low cost.
megous 5y ago
You don't need soldering skills, just by a jack with screws. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10000133366659.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10000133366659.html

rjsw 5y ago

Is Broadcom bad at this ? I thought the VC4 (RPi) DRM code was officially supported by them.

Narishma 5y ago
They (or maybe the Raspberry Pi foundation, not exactly sure which) were paying someone to work on the open source Mesa driver. Not sure if that's still the case.