Is it possible to add an ARM mali GPU driver to the kernel

[rongi5]

Is it possible to add an ARM mali GPU driver to the kernel

[150balbes]

It's already there (Lima and Panfrost)

[probonopd]

Hi @150balbes thank you for your great work.

I am trying to build my own OS images, but I can't get Xorg to work. Probably because I am missing some of your packages. Is there a sources.list file that you are using to produce your OS images?

Reference:
probonopd/aarch64-squashfs-builder#3

[koolwiki]

It's already there (Lima and Panfrost)

Could you please build a OS image with the ARM mali GPU driver included? Thank you.

[probonopd]

Isn't ARM mali GPU driver = Lima and Panfrost driver?
So it's already there...

[150balbes]

Could you please build a OS image with the ARM mali GPU driver included? Thank you.

This is a private driver (a private BLOB is used) I don't work with him.

Isn't ARM mali GPU driver = Lima and Panfrost driver?
So it's already there...

LIMA Panfrost Mali are different drivers.

[probonopd]

This is a private driver (a private BLOB is used) I don't work with him.

I understand. Do you know whether its performance when playing back video in the web browser is better? Right now the main (only?) downside of using this as a desktop machine imho is that (FullHD fullscreen) video in the browser (e.g., YouTube) is almost unusable. But FullHD fullscreen video works well e.g., in OpenELEC.

[koolwiki]

Could you please build a OS image with the ARM mali GPU driver included? Thank you.

This is a private driver (a private BLOB is used) I don't work with him.

Could you please kindly give me some advise on how to download or install the private driver? Many thanks!

[150balbes]

I understand. Do you know whether its performance when playing back video in the web browser is better? Right now the main (only?) downside of using this as a desktop machine imho is that (FullHD fullscreen) video in the browser (e.g., YouTube) is almost unusable. But FullHD fullscreen video works well e.g., in OpenELEC.

If you want to have a full-screen 1080 video, use either the corresponding chip option (rk3399\s912\s922), or use specialized Libreelec or Android systems.

Could you please kindly give me some advise on how to download or install the private driver?

I don't know that information.

[probonopd]

I can confirm that on a s912 based system video in the browser is much better, but the FPS in fullscreen mode are still not 100% satisfactory.

I wonder why it can be done butter smooth in "specialized Libreelec or Android systems" but apparently not (yet?) in normal Desktop Linux systems.