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Coming Soon: An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver

Posted by timothy on from the mali-pitchers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Next month at FOSDEM there will be an announcement of a fully open-source and reverse-engineered ARM Mali graphics driver for Android / Linux. This driver, according to Phoronix, is said to support OpenGL ES and other functionality from reverse engineering the official ARM Linux driver. Will this mark a change for open-source graphics drivers on ARM, just as the Radeon did for x86 Linux?"

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  1. It's a big challenge to reverse engineer by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    When vendors decide to keep everything to themselves and leave the users out in the cold, the only way to get in is by reverse engineer

    But it is hard

    It is especially hard when one has to deal with updated microcodes for each subsequent release of the product

    Kudos for those who try to crack the Radeon !

    --
    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !