Hi, On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:36:31AM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > On 4 April 2016 at 11:45, Siarhei Siamashka <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > This really must be something new, because I don't remember anything > > > like this when skimming through the EULA back in 2013. Making the EULA > > > even more restrictive seems to contradict with the promise of Jem > > > Davies to provide legally redistributable mali binary drivers that > > > we had in 2014: > > > > > > > > > http://anandtech.com/comments/8226/ask-the-experts-arm-fellow-jem-davies-answers-your-gpu-questions/409101 > > > > > > Can anyone from ARM provide an update on this? > > > > Getting fairly off-topic now, but the Midgard (6xx/7xx/8xx) drivers > > are now redistributable. > > Hi Daniel, > > I'm not sure if this is really offtopic, because it is still related to > the interoperability with the X server after all. > > Thanks for your comment. Sorry for a late reply, but I have just noticed > that the ARM Mali Utgard GPU User Space Drivers page now has the > r6p0-01rel0 release with an updated EULA, which is more permissive > compared to the previous r5p0-01rel0 release: > > > http://malideveloper.arm.com/resources/drivers/arm-mali-utgard-gpu-user-space-drivers/ > > The page states that "A new and more permissive version was introduced > in January 2016 and all Midgard user-space drivers starting with r6p0 > are now distributed under the new terms. The main changes are to allow > redistribution of the binaries under the same EULA, commercial use and > benchmarking. Please read the END_USER_LICENCE_AGREEMENT.txt document > included in the packages for the exact licencing terms." > > There is obviously a minor mistake in this text, because it mentions > "Midgard" (most likely a copy-paste issue). > > Anyway, it is good that the Utgard (Mali-400/450) binaries now got a > usable license after all these years. And the weird benchmark results > confidentiality clause has been also updated. Thanks to whoever finally > made this happen!
Awesome news! > Still I wonder who is going to also provide binaries for the 32-bit > mode and for Mali-400 hardware (unless the userland binaries for > Mali-450 are fully backwards compatible). Also the X11 binaries are > still missing from the downloads page. Can ARM people comment on this? I've been using at least the Mali-450 kernel driver here without any issue, I don't know about the library though. > Maxime, if you happen to have 32-bit redistributable userland > Mali-400 binaries, could you please share them with the others? > Maybe ARM people could even put them on their download page? Unfortunately, I'm not clear on the license of the blobs I got. It's something I need to take care of, thanks for reminding me. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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