Armada DRM/KMS Driver Might Now Be Ready

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Armada DRM/KMS Driver Might Now Be Ready

07 October 2013, 08:30 AM

Phoronix: Armada DRM/KMS Driver Might Now Be Ready

For months now there's been an Armada DRM/KMS graphics driver for Marvell Armada ARM SoCs. Having gone through several patch revisions, it appears that all major issues have now been addressed for this nearly 5,000 line open-source driver...

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07 October 2013, 09:24 AM

The Armada DRM driver supports multiple contiguous scanout buffers, SHM-backed cacheable buffer objects for X pixmaps and Vivante GPU acceleration,

does that mean that you have with only a opensource driver with no other blobs except maybe a small firmware 1080p video playback with vdpau or something similar?
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