More Mesa Work Coming Out Of Imagination Tech?

[kimixa]

Nice trick to lie users...

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No more lies, Imagination Tech...

This isn't any announcement from Imagination. It's purely speculation from something by Michael. It's not realistic to hold someone accountable for something they didn't say.

ImgTec use the mesa libGL.so as a dynamic loader of their own driver, it's just a passthrough library in this case (as it is for all 'mesa' drivers too, they just pass the calls along to the driver_dri.so file too). There is no announced plan to use any more mesa code than this, and no announced plan to have any 'open' driver.

[pal666]

In the best case, they only have ONE developer!

broadcom has one developer. qualcomm has one developer employed by redhat. others have zero.

[willmore]

broadcom has one developer. qualcomm has one developer employed by redhat. others have zero.

Are we ignoring Intel? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Linux-Graphics

[chithanh]

willmore
Intel Android devices ship proprietary drivers.

powervr gpus are hardly ever used in phones anymore except for iphones,

They are not as popular as they used to be, but quite a number of smartphones are still sold with PowerVR GPU. Mostly Mediatek Helio X10 and X30.

[pal666]

Are we ignoring Intel? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Linux-Graphics

intel is not an arm vendor.

[willmore]

Intel Android devices ship proprietary drivers.

That's nice. Their Linux drivers are open source.

[willmore]

intel is not an arm vendor.

Actually, they are, but I don't see how that related to the issue.

Does Intel employ developers to do open source GPU code for their devices? Yes. How many? Phoronix: Lots!

[starshipeleven]

That's nice. Their Linux drivers are open source.

They mush have done that in an effort to be taken seriously. In embedded world it's the norm.

[GreatEmerald]

Maybe they finally make working driver for Intel GMA3600 that supports anything besides Windows 7 x86 and Ubuntu 12.04 i386?

Ha, you'd wish.

I gave up on them and gave my GMA600 tablet away.

[chithanh]

That's nice. Their Linux drivers are open source.

Their Android drivers aren't (at least those in production use), and Android is a Linux distribution.
Then there is the unfortunate situation with the GMA500/600/3600 where Intel doesn't even attempt to provide fully featured Linux open source drivers.
One might think that they learned from that debacle, but no, their Atom X3 SoFIA parts now use Mali graphics. Again without open source drivers.