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At least ARM is not completely antagonist anymore and is actually funding some this effort, that is already pretty good step forwards. But yes, there is long wa

• mort96 3y ago
  I've seen that too, I'm (very) cautiously optimistic. Ideally, ARM would be doing a bunch of the development work and actually ensure that the driver support is ready to be upstreamed on day 1 (like what AMD pretty much does AFAIU). However, the Mali-G610 (used in the RK3588) is still not supported despite being released in 2021. ARM's "work with Collabora" started before the release of the Mali-G610, so the fact that we're so far from upstream support even after this many years of development seems like a bad sign. I don't understand why future Mali architectures wouldn't also take 4+ years unless ARM really really steps it up.
  • throw354279 3y ago
    > I don't understand why future Mali architectures wouldn't also take 4+ years unless ARM really really steps it up. G610 (and the larger G710) are sort of special since there was a major change to the internal architecture and how work is submitted to the GPUs. Later versions didn't have such a big, breaking change.