> On Nov 16, 2016, at 6:11 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
This is fantastic! Thanks for doing the research and backport on this. It is a real benefit to the community. >>> >>> 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. -- 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/85F06563-CB45-4871-8DA3-06FB8C9CA947%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
