Thread: FSF to rapidly develop open/free PowerVR driver - free maemo becomes more possible.
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-02-14 , 05:02
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
ARM's Mali looks like a better long-term bet.
Which is to say, sticking with the status quo:

For the r2p0 release we've opened up all the Linux kernel side components of the Mali drivers under the GPLv2.
And it's precisely that which is already available from Qualcomm, PowerVR, and Nvidia. Unsurprisingly, none of it has been accepted into the Linux kernel, and none of it gets you anything more than a software framebuffer unless you have a license to the driver source from the IP vendor.

The FSF is looking at the userspace, which is where all the valuable, useful bits like OpenGL ES 2 support is, and is no more likely to be opened by ARM than it is anyone else.
 

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