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'Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver': https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panfrost-Going-Official htt
by KeepingItToasty 5y ago
'Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver': https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panfrost-Going-Official https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Panf...
I think Arm is providing Collabora with some of the documentation they need to write the graphics driver.
- CameronNemo 5y agoWhile this is true now, Collabora devs did a lot of reverse engineering with little documentation to get a functional driver, then ARM started to pay attention. For a long time, ARM neglected efforts to develop open source drivers.
- flakiness 5y agoWasn't aware of this, but cool move on ARM side! Thanks for the tip! Looking at the code [1], some of files are indeed copyrighted to ARM. So they are actually providing some data. Also, the linked story mentions that qcom is also providing some support to thee opensource driver. Pardon my ignorance here. [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/tree/main/src/panfrost/perf https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/tree/main/src/pan...