Broadcom VC5 DRM Driver Might Soon Be On Its Way To The Mainline Linux Kernel

[starshipeleven]

LoL YeS

From Video Core entry in Wikipedia

Please state what parts of that article state that this firmware is providing graphics API on its own (which was my point).

Because on the github cited by that wikipedia sentence you posted it says:

https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv-qpu

Runs ThreadX OS, and generally coordinates all functional blocks such as video codecs, power management, video out.

Which seems to be low-level stuff to me. Also NVIDIA and AMD GPUs have microcontrollers that coordinate stuff and do power management.

Proud to be full closed source not a bit opensource/free software. And we are very proud of that.

Is it bad? Are you serious?

It's a matter of time before a complete open stack hardware will be available including CPU, GPU, firmware. Everything.

Last time I checked, the person doing the reverse-engineering quit because the board was such a clusterfuck of hacks held together with duct tape that trying to jump through the same hoops was not worth the hassle.