Sunday, June 2, 2013

freedreno + gnome-shell on nexus4/a320

We don't need no binary blobz :-)


gallium/freedreno + xf86-video-freedreno using XA gallium state tracker on fedora F18.  Gnome-shell, compiz, xonontic, ioquake all work.  Just need to clean up the patches for XA and freedreno a bit more before they are ready for upstream.  And hopefully in the next couple days I'll have some time to put together a sort of make-shift installer for anyone else who wants to try.
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7 comments:

  1. metefichaJune 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM

    Nice!

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  2. UnknownJune 3, 2013 at 1:58 AM

    Good job!

    BTW. Is the freedreno driver usable for Adriod as well? Or am I talking @#$#!@#$ ?

    I'd love to give my HTC Wildfire (Buzz) a little more life. Which is now laying still.

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    1. RobJune 3, 2013 at 6:53 AM

      hmm, quick google search indicates the wildfire/MSM7225 has no GPU.. so freedreno might not help much there ;-)

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_%28system_on_chip%29

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    2. UnknownJune 7, 2013 at 5:53 AM

      Uhm. I was talking @#$#!@#$. ;-(

      Sorry. Was looking at MSM7227.

      But anyhow: does your driver work for Android as well?

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    3. RobJune 10, 2013 at 4:09 AM

      well, mesa does have some support to build for android, but I have never tried it myself.

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  3. UnknownJune 3, 2013 at 3:32 AM

    That's some fast progress. Cheers to you (and all the others working on ARM GPU stuff, that's an important front).

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  4. UnknownJune 4, 2013 at 2:33 AM

    Congratulation Rob !

    That's pretty amazing - and very exciting :) Now, I need to get one of these : http://www.inforcecomputing.com/product/moreinfo/ifc6410.html :)

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