Adreno A6xx Gallium3D Support Coming Together

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Adreno A6xx Gallium3D Support Coming Together

For the past number of months there's been Adreno A600 series support coming together within the MSM DRM kernel driver in large part thanks to Qualcomm / Code Aurora contributing code themselves. Quietly coming together as well is the A6xx Gallium3D support for allowing OpenGL acceleration...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Adreno-A6xx-Gallium3D-Branch

[boxie]

This is pretty cool - soon we can have open source graphics on some of our phones and shiny new arm laptops!

[bemerk]

Hopefully this is the start of a movement. There are a couple of sparetime projects to make older phones run with mainline kernels also.
Vendors could feel pressure to join.