On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Adam Jackson (ajax@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >>> If we really wanted to talk about graphics on arm, we'd be talking about >>> writing drivers for GPUs. >> >> Is there any use to shipping freedreno and similar projects in Fedora ARM >> before they get to the upstream kernel? (I expect a brickbat from Josh >> fairly quickly for suggesting this.) > > I've been following the tegra and lima (Mali 400) upstream work pretty > closely but neither is actually usable for gnome-shell yet to be > worth, IMO, even to be packaging it in a third party package. In he > case of the freedreno while the work is cool the qualcomm SoC is > primarily shipped on phones and tablets [1] which isn't our primary > focus so while would be cool to support I'm unsure what the user > experience would be like if we did ship it. Side note there is > upstream multi platform support for the MSM SoCs now but I have no > idea how complete this is (eg AllWinner MP support is upstream but > it's still only core SoC/serial/mmc) fwiw, there are a few boards. Various iterations of dragonboard[1].. much cheaper than the pre-low-cost-community-board dev-boards of years gone by, but still a little bit on the pricey side. And then there is the inforce ifc6410[2] which is what the dragonboard should have been all along. Sadly it seems the devicetree support (which would be needed for multi-platform) is coming in newer SoC's than the apq8064. Or older (s3/msm8660). So for out of the box multi-platform fedora kernel, I think we are talking about some eventual successor to the ifc6410 board. I should note that the freescale iMX5.x devices also have an adreno a200 GPU.. which I've not had a chance to add support for yet, but it is on my TODO list somewhere. Along with a lot of other things. Although I'm not sure that I'd want to try to run gnome-shell at 1080p on this one. BR, -R [1] http://mydragonboard.org/ [2] http://www.inforcecomputing.com/product/moreinfo/ifc6410.html > Peter > > [1] I've seen one dev board > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
