Freedreno Continues Stacking On New Features For Open-Source Adreno

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Freedreno Continues Stacking On New Features For Open-Source Adreno

Rob Clark continues doing great work on the Freedreno Gallium3D driver for open-source, reverse-engineered Qualcomm Adreno graphics as well as the related MSM DRM driver for display support with Snapdragon SoCs...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Freedreno-Summer-2017

[andrei_me]

Congrats for all your work on freedreno robclark

In the video that you demoed the boards support, there is a part where the interviewer says that the boards will be able to run on several linux distro because of freedreno and you act like it's no big deal hahaha

[starshipeleven]

Yes, just fucking yes. Guys please read the blog, the Standardized Embedded Nonsense Hacks part talks about how he modified the dragonboard 410c boot loader chain (littlekernel and uboot) to allow true EFI-like graphical boot without an EFI firmware, thus bringing it out of the bullshit embedded boards arena and allowing to boot a generic EFI Fedora image for ARM with all bells and whistles. THIS IS AWESOME.

Michael this might be worth its own article.

[skierpage]

Mostly just a few weekends probing unknown format #'s and seeing which piglit format tests started passing. The sort have thing that would have taken approximately 10 minutes with docs.. but hey, it needed to be done.

Jesus, that's dedication. Oh, and f*** you Qualcomm!