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by craftyguy 3198 days ago
FLOSS graphics driver?
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welsh 3198 days ago
The AM335x inside the OSD335x uses an SGX hardware core. You can see more details: https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#Beagl...
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craftyguy 3198 days ago
So the answer is "no", since it depends on the blobs from TI. That's too bad.
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castratikron 3198 days ago
The SGX is an accelerator. You can run 2D graphics fine with the omapdrm driver from kernel.org. At least, that's how it is on the AM437x.
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welsh 3197 days ago
The AM335x has the same SGX accelerator as the AM437x so it has the same 2D/3D basic behavior. For more information on the software architecture see: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Processor_Linux_SDK_...
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