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Qualcomm Begins Contributing To Reverse-Engineered Freedreno Linux Driver

Posted by Soulskill on from the doing-it-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For over two years there's been a Freedreno driver project that's been reverse-engineering Qualcomm's Adreno graphics hardware. Freedreno consists of both a user-space Gallium3D driver providing OpenGL / OpenGL ES support and a DRM/KMS kernel driver to replace Qualcomm's open-source kernel driver designed just around Android's needs. The community-based, reverse-engineering Freedreno driver project is finally paying off and gaining critical momentum with Qualcomm now contributing to the driver. QuIC through the Aurora Forum provided Adreno A4xx hardware support to the Freedreno MSM kernel driver.

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  1. Re:Someone in the know please explain by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2

    I am not aware of any non-mobile hardware powered by Qualcom graphic chips.

    Qualcomm is in all sorts of embedded, not just mobile, and Android is only a share of mobile, much less embedded.

    Is this for going to be bitcom-mining GPU farms?

    GPU mining of bitcoin is dead. GPU's are still useful things, though.

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  2. Re:Someone in the know please explain by Narcocide · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or maybe someone might just want to run Linux on mobile hardware without being shackled to Android? Or maybe someone is planning on coming out with some new non-Android mobile hardware and they want the graphics performance not to suck...

    I can think of several possible reasons for this right off the top of my head. You drank too much of the Kool-Aid.