Freedreno Gallium3D Now Handles Running XBMC

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 20 January 2013 at 01:11 AM EST. 8 Comments
FREE SOFTWARE
While the Freedreno driver was only born last April as an open-source reverse-engineered Qualcomm Adreno/Snapdragon graphics driver, its Gallium3D driver is already onto handling the XBMC multimedia player.

One month ago I wrote that the Freedreno Gallium3D driver was beginning to work. The Freedreno project is still largely the work of just Rob Clark, the Texas Instruments employee who has been working on this open-source ARM SoC graphics driver in his spare time. While backed by limited manpower, it's been rapidly advancing for the driver that's less than one year old.

Rob Clark has shared this weekend that his driver's latest accomplishment for the Gallium3D component is being able to handle the popular XBMC media software.

Embedded below is the video of XBMC on Fredreno in action.

More details on the Freedreno open-source efforts will be shared next month from X@FOSDEM 2013 in Belgium, where Phoronix will be providing its usual coverage of the annual European event.
Related News
About The Author
Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

Popular News This Week