[Arm-netbook] Flashing the NAND

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Wed Dec 11 14:14:19 GMT 2013


On Wednesday 11 December 2013, you wrote:
> There is one more thing that may be relevant for you. The old r3p0
> version of the mali blob can't fully utilize both pixel processors
> of the Mali400 MP2. So the performance is not optimal on Allwinner A20.
> It is possible to upgrade to a newer version r3p2-01rel2 of the blob to
> get better performance, but I was not very sure about it without a good
> justification (like somebody having a real use for OpenGL ES and
> able/willing to report bugs):
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm.sunxi/4676
> Also blobs are a temporary placeholder solution until we get free
> open source drivers. Investing extra efforts into getting blobs
> running may be counter productive at this moment.

I tried to use it once,
but i got an unresolved symbol.
I think is the one you mentioned there: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/linux-sunxi/zx4gwC1QyMc/h_mFGeL6nzMJ

is that preload hack still necessary?

Cheers,
Marco Martin



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