So do these drivers provide registers etc ? How much extra effort is required to get 2d accel with a clean room userland driver ? If we can do that and also get rasterisers working we can have a fully functional gnu/linux desktop futureproofed with wayland support. Also could we reuse that multimedia decoding engine from the a20 ? On May 8, 2017 12:13 PM, "Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think arm has open source kernel drivers but there is no way they will > get > > mainlined any time soon. The question is, how much does the userland > blob do > > everything. the open source kernel "driver" cannot actually be > called a "driver" at all. it is nothing more than a gateway to the > actual hardware. peripherals on ARM are memory-mapped: the "driver" > simply provides access to the shared memory region (plus maybe handles > some interrupts). > > this is a constant source of confusion with people believing that > just because the "shim" has been released, somehow magically it's all > okay. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected]
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