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Samsung Puts Out New Open-Source ARM DRM Driver
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I dont think Samsung is opensource company. I think it is like Oracle or Microsoft. Why? Because their Bada OS, is, unlike Android, closed source proprietary. And its kernel is copypasted and closed BSD kernel (stolen, but BSD people are such happy sheep, loving to be food for wolves).
Short and fast, samsung is garbage.
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Yeah, I think if I were the kernel devs, I would accept the KMS bits and tell them to come back with the rest when they have an open-source driver using the rest.
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What is "FIMD" ? Some embedded kind of video interface ? Wikipedia and google do not seem to know about it.
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Originally posted by LEW21 View PostEven without any userspace things, it still provides KMS, and with llvmpipe probably that can be good enough for normal usage. If not with X, then at least with Wayland.
I think KMS in itself is already very useful, it's pretty the modern equivalent of a simple Xorg 2D driver... Let's see what the kernel developers have to say about this.
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Even without any userspace things, it still provides KMS, and with llvmpipe probably that can be good enough for normal usage. If not with X, then at least with Wayland.
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Originally posted by ?John? View PostNot that it mattered, but I fully support the "open the whole thing up or shove it up your ass" attitude among the kernel developers. Why the hell should they volunteer to maintain something that's even remotely useful only when used by some binary crap from user space?
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Open the whole stack or GTFO!
Not that it mattered, but I fully support the "open the whole thing up or shove it up your ass" attitude among the kernel developers. Why the hell should they volunteer to maintain something that's even remotely useful only when used by some binary crap from user space?
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This is still good news, hopefully if Samsung decide to use Mesa it'll mean year another company working on the Gallium infrastructure
Fingers crossed
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Samsung Puts Out New Open-Source ARM DRM Driver
Phoronix: Samsung Puts Out New Open-Source ARM DRM Driver
Samsung has published the code to a new open-source DRM driver for its EXYNOS4210 System-On-a-Chip. The EXYNOS4210 has impressive 3D graphics capabilities, uses the dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor, and is used in various smart-phones. The Samsung Galaxy S II is one of the smart-phones using the Exynos 4210 SoC. Samsung is hoping to push this DRM driver into the mainline Linux kernel...
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