On 2017-09-19 12:27 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: mali-midgard-dkms
> Severity: serious
>
> The package description says:
>
> > This provides the kernel module for the ARM Mali 'midgard' GPU series
> > in dkms format. This covers the 6xx and 7xx GPU hardware devices. You
> > need this kernel module as well the binary drivers to make the
> > hardware work.
>
> If that's the case, and this kernel module doesn't do any good without
> the binary drivers, then this package should go to "contrib", not
> "main".
That's a good point. The plan was always to upload it to contrib originally,
but clearly I have failed to actually do so.
> If this kernel module has uses without the binary drivers (e.g. if it
> can be made to work with the reverse-engineered driver instead), then
> the description should make that clear.
The mali reverse-engineering effort has recently restarted after being
moribund for a few years, (https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima) and it's
possible that this driver will be useful there, but I don't know that
yet. I'll check with that project and unless there is a prospect of
this driver being used by free software I'll move it.
Wookey
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