Re: GMA500 drivers

2019-03-26 Thread Mihai Popescu
> The idea was to take the crappy binary blobs from Debian and wrap that into > something decent. > Reading up on OpenBSD driver management however ... Whenever you try to wrap something crappy it still remains crappy and it still smells. Your point, if any, is weird.

Re: GMA500 drivers

2019-03-26 Thread Normen Wohner
> On 26 Mar 2019, at 13:30, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > > There is no suitably licensed driver to port. And no documentation to > write one from scratch. > I’m not looking to make this an upstream thing. The idea was to take the crappy binary blobs from Debian and wrap that into something

Re: GMA500 drivers

2019-03-25 Thread Noth
On 25/03/2019 09:44, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:50:30AM +, Maurice McCarthy wrote: On 23/03/2019, Normen Wohner wrote: I have now successfully installed OpenBSD on my Netbook, however Graphics performance is abysmal. I know that sadly Linux uses binary blobs for the

Re: GMA500 drivers

2019-03-25 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:50:30AM +, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > On 23/03/2019, Normen Wohner wrote: > > I have now successfully installed OpenBSD > > on my Netbook, however Graphics performance > > is abysmal. > > I know that sadly Linux uses binary blobs for > > the GMA500 as it is a

Re: GMA500 drivers

2019-03-25 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 23/03/2019, Normen Wohner wrote: > I have now successfully installed OpenBSD > on my Netbook, however Graphics performance > is abysmal. > I know that sadly Linux uses binary blobs for > the GMA500 as it is a licensed Powervr chip. > Any idea on how to "maybe" get faster graphics > working? >