Arm Talks Up Their Open-Source Contributions, Adding Support For Panfrost

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Arm Talks Up Their Open-Source Contributions, Adding Support For Panfrost

While Intel is well known -- and well regarded -- as being one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel as well as being a significant player in many other open-source projects with their countless open-source software contributions over the years, Arm is now trying to better promote their open-source support and open contributions...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Talks-Up-Open-Source

[schmidtbag]

This definitely would be great. Everything to reduce custom kernels for ARM would really help speed up its adoption. It sucks having to use very outdated kernels for the sake of having GPU acceleration.

[edxposed]

Android is the market with the most ArmSIPs, but Lima and Panfrost have absolutely nothing to do with Android, and countless Android phones (Pixel is the only exception, but these days the Pixel's hardware is a piece of shit) lose driver and firmware updates a year after the release of their SoCs, which is clearly planned obsolescence

[NeoMorpheus]

While Intel is well known -- and well regarded -- as being one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel as well as being a significant player in many other open-source projects with their countless open-source software contributions over the years,

And AMD is chopped liver or a dead company that doesnt exist and never contributed anything....

[Danielsan]

Scared about Risc-V?

[Britoid]

Android is the market with the most ArmSIPs, but Lima and Panfrost have absolutely nothing to do with Android, and countless Android phones (Pixel is the only exception, but these days the Pixel's hardware is a piece of shit) lose driver and firmware updates a year after the release of their SoCs, which is clearly planned obsolescence

The only two solutions is for these companies to work and get support upstream, which is unlikely given they release products quicker than it takes to get code merged upstream.

or they use a stable driver api, which is also unlikely.

[citral]

That's what I'd call being extremely late to the party... I would normally welcome this kind of news but this is just a bit too bitter to swallow.

[OneTimeShot]

They have to write the drivers anyway… might as well do it once in Mesa….

[wswartzendruber]

Scared about Risc-V?

I was just going to say...

RISC-V is coming for you guys with Jim Keller* at the helm of at least one large project.

* Chief architect of the Athlon 64 and Ryzen processors.

[ayumu]

Too little, too late.

e.g. Imagination Technologies, which is invested in RISC-V, has been working on a mesa3d driver for a long time now.