[Arm-netbook] Mali DRM for a10

[Alejandro Mery]

Hi,

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:43 AM, edward <enielsen2013 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [    1.410000] Mali DRM initialize, driver name: mali_drm, version 2.1
> [    1.420000] [drm] Initialized mali_drm 2.1.1 20101111 on minor 0
>
> I think i got the mali drm working in the 3.0.31+ allwinner-v2 kernel.
>
> needs to be checked!
>
> the mali directory came from the DX910-SW-99002-r2p4-02rel1
> http://www.malideveloper.com/developer-resources/drivers/open-source-mali-gpus-linux-exadri2-and-x11-display-drivers.php
>
> the a10_drm.tar gets extracted into drivers/gpu/drm
>
> the devices.c goes into arch/arm/mach-sun4i
>
> menuconfig to enable CONFIG_DRM_MALI under device drivers->graphics
> support->Direct Rendering Manager
>
> the only issue is at the bottom of the mali_drv.c file I had to use
> /* MODULE_LICENSE(DRIVER_LICENSE); */
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> to avoid a GPL / NONGPL license error while compiling. The header of
> this file says it has a GPL license so the change should be ok. I am not
> a license expert but I believe it will be ok. What do you think?

thanks!, I pushed your changes to a wip/ branch called
`wip/allwinner-v3.0-android-v2/mali` [1]  and there is already a issue
filed against it [2].

please come and join us in the irc channel (#arm-netbook at freenode)
and github :-)

[1] https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner/commits/wip/allwinner-v3.0-android-v2/mali
[2] https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner/issues/19