[Arm-netbook] Mali-400 driver status

Adam Gill madallig at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 07:02:58 GMT 2011


I see a lot of talk about ARM etc ... what happened about the discussion 
with MIPS - I though this is a viable alternative?

Adam

On 12/27/2011 2:42 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> 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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