On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Julien <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently bought a BeagleBoard X15 and started playing with it, the first >> thing I noticed is despite there is three GPU on AM57x SOC, there is no >> hardware acceleration in X11 >> I searched and found that the 3D GPUs are not only proprietary, but TI >> actually does not support X11 at all ... it is bad because I actually love >> X11 and want to use it. >> Then I tried the GC320 2D GPU with TI galcore driver >> (https://git.ti.com/graphics/ti-gc320-driver) and armada X driver >> (https://github.com/xobs/xserver-xorg-video-armada with galcore/libGAL) : it >> works, but sometimes it freezes : actually it freezes everytimes when >> quitting X. I made some tests with proprietary libGAL >> (https://git.ti.com/graphics/ti-gc320-libs), and I finally found that either >> the driver or the userspace lib make the computer freezing. >> >> I decided to look further and discovered that project that aim to >> open-sourcing Vivante GPU chips Etnaviv is pretty well advanced >> (https://github.com/etnaviv). The project initially support GCxxx chips in >> IMX6 and Armada SOC, and I wondered if it could works on AM57x. It appears >> that it works ! I backported the etnaviv from mainline kernel to use it with >> the linux 4.4 kernel provided with the default board Debian >> (http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian/), and with very little changes, it can be >> used with Beagleboard X15. >> >> More details on how it works in this repository : >> https://github.com/julbouln/etnaviv_x15
This is now pushed: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/ti-linux-kernel-dev/commit/745855e6c0d728c1245ed4f4768b51046d5adb39 Ran out of time today to test it.. Will do that tomorrow. ;) Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYjd3YY40DCb1-KMfY8D7xuGfhwtJ5C_aQ1yTY7QSmw_Hg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
