Lima DRM Driver Strikes Version Two For Mali 400/450 Open-Source Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Lima DRM Driver Strikes Version Two For Mali 400/450 Open-Source Support

While the Mali 400/450 series era hardware is now 7~11 years old, the revived Lima DRM driver is still being pursued for mainlining in the Linux kernel to offer up open-source support for these once popular Arm graphics generations...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lima-DRM-Driver-V2

[boxie]

It would be rather interesting being able to spin up a newer android kernel for older devices when all the bits fall into place

[nanonyme]

Is there hardware with this out there? Laptops?

[oskar-n]

Is there hardware with this out there? Laptops?

Embedded systems and phones.

[chithanh]

nanonyme Mali 400/450 is very popular in SoCs for SBCs. Allwinner, AMLogic, RockChip, and even Intel (Atom x3-C3130/3230) use it.
I have one in my Orange Pi PC (Allwinner H3 with Mali 400MP2).

Laptops with Mali exist too, for example Pinebook (Allwinner A64 with Mali 400MP2).

[kenren]

I'm happy to know that, but power management is still not supported by the kernel.
On the mesa side there is still much thing to do.
But mainline it can be a start

[nokipaike]

nice news, finally I have some hope to put linux on my tvbox based on rockchip 3229 .. has a gpu mali 400,
with android surfing the internet is as awkward as shit

[nanonyme]

nanonyme Mali 400/450 is very popular in SoCs for SBCs. Allwinner, AMLogic, RockChip, and even Intel (Atom x3-C3130/3230) use it.
I have one in my Orange Pi PC (Allwinner H3 with Mali 400MP2).

Laptops with Mali exist too, for example Pinebook (Allwinner A64 with Mali 400MP2).

Cool, need to remember Pinebook. I was asking since I remember that comment from Linus ARM can't succeed in clouds without native ARM development machines.

[andreano]

Keep it coming, crashing as it may. It would be amazing to be able to run a generic distro on any decent ARM board – more mainlining please.

I'm tired of vendor-provided kernels, because there is always a kernel module missing.

[FireBurn]

Cool, need to remember Pinebook. I was asking since I remember that comment from Linus ARM can't succeed in clouds without native ARM development machines.

I very much doubt that you could develop on it comfortably, lack of oomph in the processor and only 2GB of RAM would be painful