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 (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px">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 </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Allwinner A10 as SoC of the project.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px">The source of the news:</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px"><a href="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</a></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Iliya</font></div>