[Arm-netbook] An open-sourced, reversed-engineered Mali GPU driver

[Bari Ari]

On 01/21/2012 01:12 AM, Iliya Georgiev wrote:
> It seems that CodeThink, a company supporting open source software, is 
> involved in making of open source reversed-engineered Mali GPU driver. 
> According to the source Mali GPU has "clean" design that can help 
> developers to get easily the desired bits. More progress on this work 
> will be shown in FOSDEM (Free Open-Source Developers' European 
> Meeting) in the early February. A lot of work has to be done, but 
> there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
>
> The news gives a chance of Allwinner A10, which includes Mali-400 GPU, 
> to have also open source GPU driver. It confirms also the right choice 
> of Allwinner A10 as SoC of the project.
>
> The source of the news:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arm_mali_reverse&num=1 
> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arm_mali_reverse&num=1>
>
>
>
This is good news. I just spoke with a X dev working on Mali to confirm 
this.

The A10 is on the list, 1 vertex, 1 fragment shader.

The real nice one they say in the Eynos, with 1 vertex, 4 fragment shaders.

I also let them know what we are up to here.

-Bari