Ubuntu Working On GNOME Wayland Support For The AMD Xilinx Kria KR260

[anarsoul]

So they are using a proprietary driver for Mali400 while open-source lima driver has been available and stable for at least couple years?

[ddriver]

Care to elaborate?

"Absurd" ain't enough for ya?

[Alexmitter]

Oh, that thing has a Mali 400 MP2, which is the shitty old GPU that only supports OpenGL ES 2.0. The same shitty GPU inside the Allwinner A64.
People run Gnome in a Wayland session on that thing for a while now, its just that it does not technically have the minimum OpenGL level needed for that and its slow as hell.

[Vermilion]

Wayland on a machine vision development kit? That's extremely absurd.

Care to elaborate?

[Vermilion]

Probably the only place I would ever willingly write anything for Gnome is kiosk style apps[...]

A small note that GNOME already offers a minimal Wayland and X compositor for single app sessions called GNOME Kiosk. RH wrote a nice tutorial for how to use it.

[stormcrow]

Wayland on a machine vision development kit? That's extremely absurd.

No not really. Having kiosk-style control panels using off-the-shelf software components would be appealing. Probably the only place I would ever willingly write anything for Gnome is kiosk style apps because that's what the entire Gnome system feels like (and why I don't like using it otherwise).

[marlock]

I didn't look into the driver, but if it's the same limited binary that ARM puts out for many of their Mali GPU's with limited kernel support (e.g. missing DRM/KMS stuff) then it'll actually improve things for other limited outdated Mali drivers as well.

that kind of answered my own question... I was wondering what could make a Mesa driver supported GPU behave so badly out-of-the-box that it would need a truckload of tweaks to become usable

[MastaG]

I didn't look into the driver, but if it's the same limited binary that ARM puts out for many of their Mali GPU's with limited kernel support (e.g. missing DRM/KMS stuff) then it'll actually improve things for other limited outdated Mali drivers as well.

[timofonic]

Wayland on a machine vision development kit? That's extremely absurd.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Working On GNOME Wayland Support For The AMD Xilinx Kria KR260

Canonical engineer Daniel van Vugt who is known for his work on enhancing the upstream GNOME desktop stack to improve the experience for Ubuntu has recently taken up interest in getting the AMD-Xilinx Kria KR260 working with the GNOME Wayland session. The Kria KR260 is for the recently-announced AMD/Xilinx Robotics Starter Kit...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Wayland-WIP-KR260