The VC4 Gallium3D Driver Is Still Moving Along For The Raspberry Pi

Written by Michael Larabel in Raspberry Pi on 19 October 2014 at 05:30 PM EDT. 7 Comments
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Eric Anholt has provided a status update concerning the state of Broadcom's VC4 Gallium3D driver that provides open-source graphics support for the Raspberry Pi.

Eric was spending time last week with Broadcom and Raspberry Pi engineers to learn more about the Broadcom GPU and what to do in event of GPU hangs, understanding the cache hierarchy, etc. The open-source driver is to the point where X support is almost stable, Piglit can run on the Raspberry Pi hardware, and the KMS support is coming along.

Coming up Anholt will be working on cleaning up the user-space to kernel space ABI and other improvements so he can begin upstreaming the code to the Linux kernel.

More details can be found via Eric's blog post.
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