Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Merged Into Mesa 19.1 For Open-Source ARM Mali Graphics

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Merged Into Mesa 19.1 For Open-Source ARM Mali Graphics

The in-development Mesa 19.1 graphics stack release due out next quarter will feature a new Gallium3D driver... The initial Panfrost driver for open-source, reverse-engineered ARM Mali graphics hardware support of newer generations...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Panfrost-Initial-Mesa-19.1

[boxie]

*yay* this is pretty cool and exciting - I hope there is lots more Panfrost in the near future!

now it's time to find a cheap ARM laptop to mess around with

[simburde]

*yay* this is pretty cool and exciting - I hope there is lots more Panfrost in the near future!

now it's time to find a cheap ARM laptop to mess around with

Pinebook Pro looks promising https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093

[eebrah]

I am very interested to see how well this works on an Allwinner H6 ... I met get cheap ARM PCs with working graphics AND hardware accelerated media playback ... somewhere down the line

[boxie]

Pinebook Pro looks promising https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093

that does look like a shiny laptop to hack on, that said, the lower end one would almost be fine too!

Thanks for the link!

[microcode]

Pinebook Pro looks promising https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093

that does look like a shiny laptop to hack on, that said, the lower end one would almost be fine too!

Thanks for the link!

Also, the Pinebook Pro is based on a chipset which is ostensibly supported by the Panfrost driver.

[cRaZy-bisCuiT]

FreeSync will only work with Mesa 19 (or git) and Kernel 5.0, right? Will those patches be backported? I ordered two FreeSync monitors and I'd love to test them. They will only arrive in march I assume, but I guess Mesa 19 will be later?

[Michael]

FreeSync will only work with Mesa 19 (or git) and Kernel 5.0, right? Will those patches be backported? I ordered two FreeSync monitors and I'd love to test them. They will only arrive in march I assume, but I guess Mesa 19 will be later?

No they don't get backported. Mesa 19.0 should be out by end of February.

[Michael_S]

Pinebook Pro looks promising https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093

Ooh, thanks for posting that! Awesome. I may get one... I really shouldn't, I have two perfectly functional laptops I basically never use.

[schmidtbag]

This is exciting, I just hope this doesn't get abandoned like many of the other independent and reverse-engineered GPU drivers, like Lima or etnaviv.