Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Enables Working FP16 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Enables Working FP16 Support

The Panfrost Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL driver support for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost hardware has another feature tacked on as of Friday night...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Panfrost-Gallium3D-FP16

[tuxd3v]

Very nice to see this arm drivers progress
Hopefully one day they could be used in the arm desktop images.

[DrYak]

Very nice to see this arm drivers progress
Hopefully one day they could be used in the arm desktop images.

Actually, that's the default driver used in (the currently default) Manjaro ARM on the PineBook Pro.
(The laptop I'm actually typing this on).
It works.

(Though as mesa matrix might suggest, the uptake of OpenGL standard is incomplete and if you don't opt for mesa-git, you probably need to use OpenGL ES2 acceleration in Qt instead).