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Does anybody know how well the Mali drivers work on vanilla Linux (non-Android, non-Chrome Linux)? As a longtime Linux guy, these ARM machines (and the similar
by naner 14y ago
Does anybody know how well the Mali drivers work on vanilla Linux (non-Android, non-Chrome Linux)?
As a longtime Linux guy, these ARM machines (and the similar tablets) are enticing. I'm finding conflicting reports on the drivers, though. It appears they were closed-source, that there is a project to reverse engineer them, and also I found a website (malideveloper.com) where they appear to have source code officially available...
- randallu 14y agoOnly the kernel code is available on malideveloper.com though you can probably obtain binaries for the userland stuff (EGL, GLESv2) easily enough. ChromeOS is close enough to normal Linux (normal libc, etc) that it should be possible without too much hackery.
- gregsq 14y agoI don't know much but it's a bit of a mess. You're right that there's a reverse engineering effort but it's against the 400 GPU, not the 704 in the Exynos. Samsung has been under quite a bit of pressure to open up the GPU code, and they've acquiesced to two binary blobs. See the Arndaleboard in ref below. ARM have released code but it requires the full DDK which is not for general use. It's only available to partners. BTW, in this link is a full linux Jelly Bean android repository. Except for the blobs, which are binary. http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page