[Lima] Driver integration and informations

[Qiang Yu]

Hi Ben,


On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 3:14 PM Ben "Skwid" Gailly <ben at liberum.be> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I'm creating a rpi-like (as Banana Pi, Orange Pi, etc) and alsl the OS (based on debian/devuan with the kernel GNU/Linux-Libre from the fsfla https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/#how such as Trisquel, Gnewsense and Parabola but I'll do it for my ARM device.).
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> It's a real project, it's been 2 years thzt I'm working in it alone, and at school I met a teacher with financial possibilities and an another friend which will be my associates.
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> For that purpose, I'll put on the board the Mali-400mp2 GPU and I'll use your Lima-Driver.
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> I need informations on how to compile the driver and integrate it into the GNU/Linux-Libre kernel (as in gihub are 3 folders containing lima,.mali driver and xf86 mali driver).

There are two GPU drivers for Mali400 GPU:
1. mali blob driver from ARM, close source, feature complete
2. lima driver from lima project, open source, still in development

For lima driver, there are only two repos, linux kernel driver and
mesa driver at here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima

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> If it's not totally working, or missing some features, informations, codes I'll learn how to do it by myself or with some others for my project, if you have all the informations on what is missing, what have to be done to be useful on a real hardware, please inform me..
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There's status and TODO list at here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima/web/wikis/home

Basically we're implementing missing OpenGL functionalities guided by test like
piglit and glmark2, and fix bugs.

Regards,
Qiang

> Qiang Yu already gave me informations on some aspect of the development.
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> Thanks a lot!
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> Ben "Skwid"
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