Arm: "Panfrost is now the GPU driver for the Linux community" - CNX Software
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Arm is now saying that "in effect, Panfrost is now the GPU driver for the Linux community" after having extended and expanded the collaboration with
  • donuts@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know much about ARM, but this is good right?

    It seems that the more officially supported, open source GPU driver stacks we have, the better.

    • Shatur
      OP
      7·
      1 year ago

      Of course it’s good! Especially for GNU/Linux on mobile.

    • Shatur
      OP
      9·
      1 year ago

      End of the article mentions the following:

      Android was not mentioned by either Arm or Collobora, so I’d assume Arm will still focus their resources and provide closed-source Mali GPU drivers for Android, while expanding their support for Panfrost on Linux.

      • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        1 year ago

        android emulators can ship their own userland drivers, this is how a lot of android emulators ship turnip drivers which boast expanded vulkan feature support and sometimes better performance. and considering the open source nature, i can easily see someone porting it for rom usage especially considering how much of a meme mali drivers are on android and emulation community