[Fsuk-manchester] Open ARM GPU drivers

[Michael Dorrington]

As you may or may not be aware, the state of free video drivers on the
rising ARM architecture, found in mobile computers, is not good.  This
includes the Raspberry Pi which has what the makers call a free video
driver but really it's merely a shim layer to the real driver¹.
Thankfully this is changing due to reverse engineering efforts:

https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/operating_systems_open_arm_gpu/

Regards,
Mike.

¹
<http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspberry-pi_p4-7000009718/>

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [powervr-devel] Open ARM GPU drivers
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:38:49 +0100
From: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <address@hidden>
Reply-To: PowerVR SGX driver development <address@hidden>
To: PowerVR SGX driver development <address@hidden>

I have seen that there will be a talk at FOSDEM 2013:

<https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/operating_systems_open_arm_gpu/>

And it may also shed some light on PowerVR.

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