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Arm officially supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali GPU driver development

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  1. lionirdeadman
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    This is pretty damn awesome. That should help a lot projects to run Linux on phones. Although, the modems are likely to be the most annoying parts, I think.

    This is pretty damn awesome. That should help a lot projects to run Linux on phones. Although, the modems are likely to be the most annoying parts, I think.

    3 votes
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    skybrian
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    It looks like this kind of gpu is for smartphones and other embedded systems?

    It looks like this kind of gpu is for smartphones and other embedded systems?

    2 votes
    1. spctrvl
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      Yeah, that's where it's most common. This is pretty big news if it bears fruit, working around closed GPU drivers is a pretty big hurdle to overcome when it comes to opening up mobile platforms.

      Yeah, that's where it's most common. This is pretty big news if it bears fruit, working around closed GPU drivers is a pretty big hurdle to overcome when it comes to opening up mobile platforms.

      5 votes