Imagination Appears To Be Working On An Open-Source PowerVR Driver

[Nille]

For me it sounds like a FOSS-Kernel-Modul and a Userspace Blob.

[Ancurio]

For me it sounds like a FOSS-Kernel-Modul and a Userspace Blob.

Thankfully that would be impossible, because the Linux kernel rejects kernel drivers which don't have at least one FOSS userspace component using it (and blobs don't count). That's why amdgpu is a thing: the driver will be used by both Catalyst and Mesa.

[Nille]

Thankfully that would be impossible, because the Linux kernel rejects kernel drivers which don't have at least one FOSS userspace component using it (and blobs don't count). That's why amdgpu is a thing: the driver will be used by both Catalyst and Mesa.

No one say that they what the Driver in the Mainline Tree.

[c117152]

Either release documentations or release the driver.

Unofficial statements by a PR guy in a talk-back forum aren't doing much to my confidence level.

[fithisux]

If they do it I will buy http://store.imgtec.com/us/product/mips-creator-ci20/

[alexvoica]

Either release documentations or release the driver.

Unofficial statements by a PR guy in a talk-back forum aren't doing much to my confidence level.

Risking a bucket of abuse being hurdled in my general direction, I'm a bit more than a PR guy.

Also https://twitter.com/g_truc/status/622116486916784128

Regards,
Alex.

[stevea]

Very minor nit - "This jives with what I heard from Imagination over two months ago,"
The phrase is "jibes with".