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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. What a waste of time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you've ever dealt with the NVidia or AMD driver development teams you know they have a lot of programmers working their asses off to keep the stuff from crashing. There is no way an open source effort will have the resources to produce a stable high-performance driver for even remotely recent hardware. Good luck, but they don't stand a chance.