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,

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Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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