Gallium3D Panfrost Driver Can Now Handle Running The GNOME Shell Desktop

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gallium3D Panfrost Driver Can Now Handle Running The GNOME Shell Desktop

Considering how resource intensive modern Linux desktops are particularly on OpenGL for compositing, it's quite an achievement that the Panfrost open-source Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali Bifrost/Midgard hardware can now run the GNOME Shell...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ll-On-Panfrost

[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.