> 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,
> 
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