Presumably the closed source driver is an installer that is run on any 
Freescale imx6 board. If that is the case then TI's GPU support is **ahem, 
cough, cough** severely lacking.


On Monday, 1 December 2014 16:35:39 UTC+13, Nick Apperley wrote:
>
> Looks as though Freescale have made the closed source driver available for 
> all the GPUs they use (Vivante). Have heard that JavaFX programs will run 
> via the framebuffer (hardware rendering) just fine with both the closed 
> (official) and open source (unofficial - reverse engineered) Vivante GPU 
> drivers.
>
>
> On Sunday, 30 November 2014 15:45:45 UTC+13, liyaoshi wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.freescale.com/lgfiles/NMG/MAD/YOCTO/gpu-viv-bin-mx6q-3.10.17-1.0.0-hfp.bin
>>
>> Do you mean this ?
>>
>>
>> 2014-11-30 9:35 GMT+08:00 Robert Nelson <[email protected]>:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 29, 2014 7:22 PM, "Nick Apperley" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Robert - thanks for the advise. Would it make sense economically to go 
>>> for the Wandboard Quad over the upcoming Beagleboard X15 when it comes to 
>>> running GUI programs?
>>>
>>> 3d: vivante will be reversed engineered before powervr. Freescale hasn't 
>>> released 'armhf' drivers whereas ti has..
>>>
>>> The 'x15' will be supported by bb.org and ti.. Who really supports the 
>>> wand? All the info I put out is just because I replaced my failing pandas 
>>> with quad wands...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>  
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