The VC4 Gallium3D Driver Is Still Moving Along For The Raspberry Pi

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The VC4 Gallium3D Driver Is Still Moving Along For The Raspberry Pi

Eric Anholt has provided a status update concerning the state of Broadcom's VC4 Gallium3D driver that provides open-source graphics support for the Raspberry Pi...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxNzY

[AJenbo]

Phoronix: The VC4 Gallium3D Driver Is Still Moving Along For The Raspberry Pi

Eric Anholt has provided a status update concerning the state of Broadcom's VC4 Gallium3D driver that provides open-source graphics support for the Raspberry Pi...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxNzY

I didn't know GPUs had hands, any advice on how to make it do the dishes?

[geearf]

I didn't know GPUs had hands, any advice on how to make it do the dishes?

haha good catch, but the current issue is the driver doesn't know how to handle the hands at all.

what to do in event of GPU hands

[Kemosabe]

naaah ... raspberry here, raspberry there. I want to see good drivers for my freescale imx6.
I would do it myself but i have no clue how to do such things!

(The author of etnaviv decided to stop finishing the project but instead telling "almost done, do it yourself")

[austriancoder]

naaah ... raspberry here, raspberry there. I want to see good drivers for my freescale imx6.
I would do it myself but i have no clue how to do such things!

(The author of etnaviv decided to stop finishing the project but instead telling "almost done, do it yourself")

You know that there is active work on etnaviv DRM driver, libdrm-etnaviv and a gallium driver?
https://github.com/austriancoder

[XoD DarK]

naaah ... raspberry here, raspberry there. I want to see good drivers for my freescale imx6.
I would do it myself but i have no clue how to do such things!

(The author of etnaviv decided to stop finishing the project but instead telling "almost done, do it yourself")

Me too, And I shall be making donation to someone who work on a DRM driver for gpu Vivante (and KMS imx driver).
But I can't pay a developer fulltime alone

[konserw]

Mainline support for my efika MX smartbook would be great! I could also make some small donation for that. Moreover I know some C so mabey I could help, but don't know where to start...

[XoD DarK]

Mainline support for my efika MX smartbook would be great! I could also make some small donation for that. Moreover I know some C so mabey I could help, but don't know where to start...

I'm not an expert but If you are curious you can :
First: Look at this video : Embedded Linux Conference 2013 - Anatomy of an Embedded KMS Driver
Second : Read kernel documentation : Kernel DRM documentation
Third : Look at etna_viv project on github (wiki, doc, code) : etna_viv

And subscribe to dev mailing list (dri-devel, wandboard-dev, mesa-dev, ).
In staging kernel there are a start of kms driver for imx : imx-drm, but no start for vivante drm driver.
But Vivante have opensource linux kernel driver (not DRM).

And good luck