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ARM Talks Mali Vulkan, Lack Of Open Drivers & More @ Linaro Budapest 17
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postnvidia probably just doesn't have many boards
Mali is an IP core baked in a third-party SoC, so the blob driver needs to be adjusted to work in that particular SoC. (and ARM wants to keep it blobbed so the only way to do this is to have the third party modify it and ship a device-specific blob)
NVIDIA's GPUs are self-contained GPU SoCs communicating over standard interfaces, or integrated in NVIDIA's own embedded device SoC designs. There is no need to do these tricks to keep their sauce secret.
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Originally posted by indepe View PostMaking vendor-specific drivers "apt-gettable", as it was called in the video, seems a much more worthwhile enterprise. Let vendors make their drivers open source for the actual benefits it brings, not for pressure.
That said, I agree with the second sentence.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postthey gave bullshit excuse for closed source userspace driver: they are "afraid of patent trolls". somehow amd isn't afraid, intel isn't afraid, broadcom isn't afraid, even arm isn't afraid of patent trolls when writing opensource kernel driver, but with userspace driver they imagine some magic arm-only userspace-only patent trolls.
really people should avoid mali to teach those bastards some clue
That says the same thing they did, but without all the sugar.
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Originally posted by willmore View PostOkay, let me paraphrase that. "ARM admits that they use stolen IP and won't open up the source because they're afraid of getting caught."
That says the same thing they did, but without all the sugar.
Although this is a sensible explanation on its own right, while "afraid of patent trolls" is plain bs, so who knows, maybe that's just the lecturer's own answer under pressure and not ARM's.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostAnother possible explanation is that they are using third party stuff under license and this prevents them from opening it up. (this is the usual reason in this field)
Although this is a sensible explanation on its own right, while "afraid of patent trolls" is plain bs, so who knows, maybe that's just the lecturer's own answer under pressure and not ARM's.
It's probably what legal told them to say if anyone asked. It makes them sound like they're trying not to be a victim--and hence being a victim. Then hoping that people have sympathy for them because 'poor ARM is being bullied by all of those mean pattent trolls'. Yeah, not buying it.
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