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In case you are curious, the GPU is PowerVR "Rogue" AXE-1-16M. Despite PowerVR generally having been a pain in the ass in the past, they apparently have had a c
by zokier 4y ago
In case you are curious, the GPU is PowerVR "Rogue" AXE-1-16M. Despite PowerVR generally having been a pain in the ass in the past, they apparently have had a change of heart finally and are trying to push drivers to mainline which is nice. Although it must be also said that afaik the drivers have not been merged yet, so ymmv with these devices
- MegaDeKay 4y agoThe possibility of them using a PowerVR GPU was the first "fly in the ointment" that occurred to me upon reading this. I have the OG Beaglebone and the closed source GPU driver was a real pain to deal with in terms of updating the kernel and the like. Do you have further details on how far along their open source effort is and how serious they are about it? The last reference I found in a quick search goes back to Aug 2022. https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-DRM-Kernel-Driver-RFC https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-DRM-Kernel-Driver-RFC
- bacchusracine 4y ago>PowerVR Screw PowerVR. I'll never forgive them for the way their crap drivers locked down chips strangled the netbooks and some of the UMPCs. To this day I still look up the SONY Vaio P and drool only to wake up again when I realize the hardware will never perform right in Linux because of the poison pill that is PowerVR. I also blame Intel but it was PowerVR's chips. If they want to play at having a change of heart, let them release what it would take to make the Sony Vaio P series and other netbooks with those video chips viable again.