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    Mesa Begins Trek Bringing Up Arm Mali "Valhall" Graphics

    Phoronix: Mesa Begins Trek Bringing Up Arm Mali "Valhall" Graphics

    The Panfrost Gallium3D OpenGL driver and PanVK open-source drivers in Mesa have come a long way via reverse-engineering for Arm Mali graphics support. However, to this point the focus has been on Arm's "Midgard" and "Bifrost" architectures while the newer "Valhall" architecture has been around the past two years. The Panfrost effort for bringing up Valhall is now getting underway...

    Mesa Begins Trek Bringing Up Arm Mali "Valhall" Graphics - Phoronix
    https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-Valhall-Starts-Work
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    Is good to see support for Valhall coming to mesa..

    In my opinion, and its just my opinion, XML is not the best format for this, but mesa use it..
    In my opinion there are out there better solutions, json being only one case..
    When will mesa change to json or other less pedantic format?

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    • #3
      Nice.

      The XML seems easy enough to follow, better than the mess of acronyms used for some other GPUs *cough*AMD*cough*.

      Originally posted by Alyssa Rosenzweig
      It is not known what happened to v8. It appears to have been yeeted from existence.
      I do however object to the use of the word "yeeted" in a commit message.

      There's also incomplete support for Valhall in the Ghidra reverse engineering tool at https://gitlab.com/icecream95/valhall-ghidra, which can apparently be used with another tool to get core dumps from the blob driver to import into Ghidra even if you don't actually have a Valhall GPU.

      I'm also hearing rumors about an emulator being developed.

      Lots of things happening in the Valhall space at the moment.

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      • #4
        With great sadness I announce that I learned a new word today.
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        • #5
          Great work as always. eventually I would love to see mali's craptastic drivers replaced by mesa foss ones.
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            RK3588 so late its graphics will work on release.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by jaxa View Post
              RK3588 so late its graphics will work on release.
              You are assuming that its a late SoC to come to market...
              Does you thought about the possibility of it being cancelled?
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              • #8
                Originally posted by tuxd3v View Post
                You are assuming that its a late SoC to come to market...
                Does you thought about the possibility of it being cancelled?
                Benchmarks are showing up for it and Radxa has confirmed it will be in the Rock "Formerly Known As Pi" 5:

                Rockchip RK3588 benchmarks - Geekbench4, GFXBench, Antutu - CNX Software
                https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/01/rockchip-rk3588-benchmarks-show-up-on-geekbench/
                We have the first benchmarks for Rockchip RK3588 processor as an Android 12 device based on the SoC has just appeared on Geekbench.

                Why this is not named as "Rock Pi 5"?
                https://forum.radxa.com/t/why-this-is-not-named-as-rock-pi-5/7912/5
                This rocks! 🙂 What format will it have?


                Rockchip Developer Conference on December 16.
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                  Originally posted by jaxa View Post
                  Benchmarks are showing up for it and Radxa has confirmed it will be in the Rock "Formerly Known As Pi" 5:

                  Rockchip RK3588 benchmarks - Geekbench4, GFXBench, Antutu - CNX Software
                  https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/01/rockchip-rk3588-benchmarks-show-up-on-geekbench/
                  We have the first benchmarks for Rockchip RK3588 processor as an Android 12 device based on the SoC has just appeared on Geekbench.

                  Why this is not named as "Rock Pi 5"?
                  https://forum.radxa.com/t/why-this-is-not-named-as-rock-pi-5/7912/5
                  This rocks! 🙂 What format will it have?


                  Rockchip Developer Conference on December 16.
                  Nice!Can't wait for RockPi 5
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by tuxd3v View Post
                    When will mesa change to json or other less pedantic format?
                    how will it help mesa?

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