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by noodly 4143 days ago
> However, it is unfortunate that there is no open source driver for this platform.

What about this one:

http://malideveloper.arm.com/develop-for-mali/drivers/open-s... ?
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homarp 4143 days ago
The closest to Open Source driver is lima, http://limadriver.org/ but libv has stopped working on it for now. see http://libv.livejournal.com/tag/lima
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lhl 4143 days ago
Sadly, the kernel driver is of limited use since the user-space driver is what does everything.

Some more info: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY3OTM

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sspiff 4143 days ago
Exactly - the open source kernel driver is just a gateway for the user space driver to access the hardware. The real magic is in the closed source, user space driver.

I believe Linus has stopped accepting these kinds of Trojan horse drivers into the mainline kernel, unless an open source user space component that does at least handle 2D graphics through it is also available.

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