A short summary of the FOSDEM talk
A short summary of the FOSDEM talk
Posted Feb 12, 2012 8:44 UTC (Sun) by jmayer (guest, #595)Parent article: Lima driver code for the Mali GPU released
This is intended as a summary of the core points of Luc's FOSDEM talk:
1) He is reverse engineering the current drivers.
2) There already exists GPLed kernel code (not in official kernel tree). This code is called by a binary only library in user space (closed source). This libaray is in no way related to or makes use of Mesa.
3) The library roughly consists of two parts: A compiler for the acceleration stuff and a "normal" driver to configure things and submit compiled commands to the GPU.
4) Right now he is working on reverse engineering the driver stuff and how to make use of the (closed) library's compiler. He is also using the GPLed kernel code.
5) He is not yet working on a driver. He is creating sample applications that do specific things (PoC).
1) He is reverse engineering the current drivers.
2) There already exists GPLed kernel code (not in official kernel tree). This code is called by a binary only library in user space (closed source). This libaray is in no way related to or makes use of Mesa.
3) The library roughly consists of two parts: A compiler for the acceleration stuff and a "normal" driver to configure things and submit compiled commands to the GPU.
4) Right now he is working on reverse engineering the driver stuff and how to make use of the (closed) library's compiler. He is also using the GPLed kernel code.
5) He is not yet working on a driver. He is creating sample applications that do specific things (PoC).