[HN Gopher] A free and open source PowerVR driver
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       A free and open source PowerVR driver
        
       Author : phsilva
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-03-06 17:06 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | rasz wrote:
       | Not for iphone GPUs, not for Atom GPU, its for very narrow sliver
       | of PVR GPUs from few years back nobody used. They made some noise
       | in 2018 about stepping up to Desktop GPU game with Chinese
       | partners and first releases in 2020. Its 2022 and all we got was
       | some fake Chinese "demo" and some mockup pictures last year
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       | https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-fenghua-gpu-new-benc...
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       | https://www.pcgamer.com/new-chinese-gpus-with-up-to-10-tflop...
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       | https://wccftech.com/chinese-gpu-maker-innosilicon-debuts-it...
        
         | tadfisher wrote:
         | I mean, it's a start? I'd imagine this would establish baseline
         | support for their GPU families with additional support coming
         | later.
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         | These are all DX10-era GPUs, so the number of features to
         | implement to get a working driver is relatively low.
        
       | marcodiego wrote:
       | Alyssa always bringing joy to the world.
        
         | tubs wrote:
         | I mean she does a bunch of super super cool stuff but this
         | particular driver is written by Imagination...
        
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