RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver To Be Enabled For Android

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver To Be Enabled For Android

With the latest Mesa patch series by Chih-Wei Huang of Android-x86, the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver is to be enabled...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-Android-Changes-RadeonSI

[GreatEmerald]

Oh, x86. I thought it was the regular one, in which case this move would be exceedingly strange. But in this case, it's odd it wasn't done sooner.

[GraysonPeddie]

I would love to try Android-x86 in a USB stick once RadeonSI is available in a new ISO.

Don't suppose I can play Final Fantasy IV, though. Let alone Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy III. It's available in the Play Store.

[madbiologist]

I would love to try Android-x86 in a USB stick once RadeonSI is available in a new ISO.

Don't suppose I can play Final Fantasy IV, though. Let alone Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy III. It's available in the Play Store.

I found a site which said that the Android port Final Fantasy IV will run on an Adreno 205 or higher GPU. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adreno that chip supports OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenVG 1.1 and EGL 1.4, so you should be right with a RadeonSI.

[duby229]

I found a site which said that the Android port Final Fantasy IV will run on an Adreno 205 or higher GPU. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adreno that chip supports OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenVG 1.1 and EGL 1.4, so you should be right with a RadeonSI.

I guess it just matters whether the devs made an x86 compile.

[droidhacker]

I would love to try Android-x86 in a USB stick once RadeonSI is available in a new ISO.

This stuff is what he is proposing to upstream mesa, which is not necessarily consistent with what he is actually using with android-x86. Android-x86 has been working well with southern and sea islands for quite a while now.