[Arm-netbook] Mali-400 driver status

lkcl luke luke.leighton at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 06:42:00 GMT 2011


On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> On 12/26/2011 07:12 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Vladimir Sedach<vsedach at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> We seem to have a misunderstanding. I think it's deeply unfortunate
>>> the whole driver stack is not available under the GPL. I'm not
>>> interested in using Linux, so having a pre-built Linux binary doesn't
>>> help.
>>   i understand.  i've actually raised this on ARM's forums, and they
>> censored the discussion.  no, that is not a hoax.
>>
>>   can i suggest that you also raise the issue with ARM, by raising a
>> discussion on their public forums, requesting the source code and
>> documentation sufficient to program the GPU?  they cannot censor
>> absolutely everybody, and the fact that you do not wish to use
>> GNU/Linux or the Linux Kernel would be very significant.
>>
>>
> How about sending an open letter to ARM asking them for the source code
> and documentation and also posting it on the wiki? Other open projects
> have done so that becomes public and can't be censored.

 yeah good idea.



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