Gallium3D Panfrost Driver Can Now Handle Running The GNOME Shell Desktop

[polarathene]

This is going to be huge with the upcoming release of the Pinebook Pro's. Should be able to run them fully libre, except for needing a wifi dongle with an atheros chip.

Atheros is only good for 802.11N isn't it? Last I knew AC driver support was no where near as decent. I think there's two vendors with drivers for some of their AC chipsets in the kernel, MediaTek was one?

[starshipeleven]

no we arent

yes we are

[discordian]

Nice, need to get back to my old Firefly RK3328 (... realistically will happen when I manage to put my kids in hibernation mode).

Somewhat offtopic, how far along is Vulkan support in Window Managers, I would love to get rid of X11 and OpenGL one day (both belong in a compatibility layer)

[treba]

So in her blog post she says that Mali is a tiled gpu. Concerning the news of weston now supporting tiled gpus better (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...partial_update), does gnome/mutter already support that, too? EGL_KHR_partial_update?

[144Hz]

Lightweight 👍

[microcode]

Kick ass. Thanks Keith Whitwell, thanks Brian Paul, and thank you Alyssa. :- )

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Can't wait to see this code in Linux and Mesa release builds

[rhysk]

Well done Alyssa!

[andyprough]

This is going to be huge with the upcoming release of the Pinebook Pro's. Should be able to run them fully libre, except for needing a wifi dongle with an atheros chip.

[boxie]

There is lots of really cool work going on with this - congrats!