Etnaviv DRM Driver Under Review For Inclusion Into Linux Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Etnaviv DRM Driver Under Review For Inclusion Into Linux Kernel

The "Etnaviv" DRM driver is now under review as an open-source, reverse-engineered graphics driver for the Vivante GPU found by some ARM SoCs...

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

[Azrael5]

What about UVD+ UVD2 preformance in latest mesa drivers? Is there a way to benchmark this feature?

[droidhacker]

What about UVD+ UVD2 preformance in latest mesa drivers? Is there a way to benchmark this feature?

Uhm... Vivante. Not Radeon.
UVD is AMD video encode/decode accelerator hardware block. Even if there was something to benchmark in UVD, it does not apply to this hardware.

[mcirsta]

VPU

Uhm... Vivante. Not Radeon.
UVD is AMD video encode/decode accelerator hardware block. Even if there was something to benchmark in UVD, it does not apply to this hardware.

Indeed ARM SOCs tent to have a separate VPU ( Video Processing Unit ) for decoding/encoding purposes , they don't use the GPU to do it. The VPU is usually just a DSP.

[XoD DarK]

Thank's for the work on this opensource driver

I waiting to be able to use etnaviv on my wandboard with fedora