Rosenzweig: Bifrost meets GNOME: Onward & upward to zero graphics blobs

[Posted June 5, 2020 by corbet]

Alyssa Rosenzweig provides an update on the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs on the Collabora blog. "In the past 3 months since we began work on Bifrost, fellow Collaboran Tomeu Vizoso and I have progressed from stubbing out the new compiler and command stream in March to running real programs by May. Driven by a reverse-engineering effort in tandem with the free software community, we are confident that against proprietary blobs and downstream hacks, open-source software will prevail."

Rosenzweig: Bifrost meets GNOME: Onward & upward to zero graphics blobs

Posted Jun 8, 2020 12:46 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks for posting this. I've been following Bitfrost (loosely, mind you) and this mixture of compiler building for exotic architectures and of reverse engineering is... impressive.

Thanks, Alyssa et al for that jewel!

Rosenzweig: Bifrost meets GNOME: Onward & upward to zero graphics blobs

Posted Jun 21, 2020 22:34 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Thanking prolific community contributors by name is also an excellent way to get more. I wish more projects did it. :)