Freedreno Gallium3D Working To Lower Its Driver Overhead

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Freedreno Gallium3D Working To Lower Its Driver Overhead

With the Freedreno Gallium3D driver's reverse-engineered, open-source 3D/OpenGL driver support for Qualcomm Adreno hardware in pretty darn good shape these days even for the latest-generation Adreno 600 series, the developers have begun working on more optimizations -- including a new effort trying to reduce the OpenGL driver's overhead...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Freedreno-Lower-The-Overhead

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Hopefully someone will figure out how to get working regular Linux distributions on this future SDM845-based detachable Chromebook: https://www.xda-developers.com/snapd...hable-display/

[bemerk]

I am looking forward to extended life support for smartphones using those chips.