Panfrost Mali Driver In Primitive Form Under Review For Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Panfrost Mali Driver In Primitive Form Under Review For Mesa

The open-source, reverse-engineered Panfrost Gallium3D driver is now under review in an early form for potentially merging into mainline Mesa in the near future. Panfrost is the current open-source driver community effort around Arm's Midgard and Bifrost graphics units...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Panfrost-Early-Review-Mesa

[andrei_me]

Panfrost is a driver for the same hardware as Luc's Tamil drive?

[miskol]

Panfrost is a driver for the same hardware as Luc's Tamil drive?

no
luc's started mali400/450 support
panfrost is for mali 600+

[andrei_me]

From phoronix :
"Mali T-series was first introduced in 2012 with the T-600 series while the newer T-700 series was introduced in late 2013"

AFAIU, Tamil covered a subset of what Panfrost covers now

[boxie]

This is awesome news! If any of the Panfrost devs are checking out the comments - WELL DONE! Keep up the great effort

[tuxd3v]

Woow, so at the Moment..
Cedrus for Mali 400/450, and an eye in H6, which is Mali T720( MidGard ),
Panfrost for MidGard &BiFrost or T600+

Some competition is hapening here on MidGard front

I still feel bad about what happened to Lima initiative..has it opened the doors for Linux-Lima, and Others..

[simburde]

Cedrus is an effort to bring hardware video acceleration for Allwinner VPU and has nothing to do with Mali 3D acceleration. Lima is aiming to support Mali 400/450, while Panfrost targets newer HW. There is no competition between these project.

[pal666]

Panfrost is a driver for the same hardware as Luc's Tamil drive?

you are probably looking for this driver https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima
edit: no, you've asked for tamil, not for lima

[hajj_3]

I hope we get Vulkan support added to panfrost once panfrost works fully. The Amlogic S922X looks a tasty SoC for a linux mini pc, 4 x A73 cpu cores + 2 x A53 + Mali G52 gpu.

[chithanh]

That is very interesting. It seems that a focus of Panfrost development is currently on the RK3399 chip. Coupled with the Pinebook Pro launch this year (some early samples will be on display at FOSDEM) this could make for a nice mostly-open-source Laptop.

There is no competition between these project.

But sadly no cooperation either.