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Wow, this is big. Embedded vendors are particularly precious about their GPU drivers. Hopefully this is the start of a trend.
by lucian1900 14y ago
Wow, this is big. Embedded vendors are particularly precious about their GPU drivers.
Hopefully this is the start of a trend.
- Nursie 14y agoWell maybe - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMjU http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxM...
- tveita 14y agoFrom what I can see in the referenced talk, Samsung will still only provide binaries for the graphics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYXh1V8ov8#t=30m40s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYXh1V8ov8#t=30m40s
- Nursie 14y agoThat's a shame. It's something at least... Binary drivers or binary GPU firmware? If the latter then Pi is in much the same place. (I would watch the video but am at work...)
- kokey 14y agoHaving open drivers is further enhanced by the limited hardware models, it means more time to focus on getting the most out of the hardware instead of getting the stack to be compatible with different hardware all the time.
- makomk 14y agoAbsurdly precious in this case, given that it's just an RPC wrapper around the closed-source blob running on the GPU processor core which contains the real OpenGL ES driver. This reveals literally no technical details about the actual GPU hardware that the existing API didn't.