[HN Gopher] PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Mid...
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PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard and
Bifrost GPUs
Author : alex_hirner
Score : 94 points
Date : 2021-03-27 08:01 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.collabora.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.collabora.com)
| kaba0 wrote:
| Is this the GPU the one found in the Pinephone?
| MarcusE1W wrote:
| Yes, Mali 400 GP2 is used in the Allwinner A64 for the
| PinePhone
| squarefoot wrote:
| Does it also support the Mali 400 GPU in Allwinner H3 based
| boards? There's a huge load of them around, and they are
| really cheap.
| robert_foss wrote:
| No the panfrost drivers only target Mali 6xx (also know as
| Midgard) and later GPUs.
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| I highly doubt the Mali 400 has the hardware required to
| support Vulkan.
| my123 wrote:
| Mali 400 cannot even support OpenGL ES 3.x, forget about
| Vulkan on that hardware. Mali-400 is old enough to have
| separate vertex and fragment shader cores.
| ntauthority wrote:
| The official binary Vulkan drivers for Mali IP have been fairly
| buggy for a while (especially comparing to Adreno), it's somewhat
| of a shame that it's not possible to bundle open Mesa drivers
| built for Android with an app due to the dynamic linker's
| enforcement of an "only use supported APIs" policy through
| namespacing.
| mgm__ wrote:
| On an adjacent note, the work being done/posted by Collabora
| motivated me to try to get Mesa + Gallium soft pipe working with
| emscripten. Here is a demo of the classic glxgears:
| https://martinmullins.github.io/mesa-softpipe-emscripten/
| robert_foss wrote:
| That is gloriously perverse!
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