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"ARM said they will release new Mali r5p1 driver before end of March together with X11 driver support based on 3.14 kernel. Then above will also work and Firefly can then be used as a PC Ubuntu replacement."
Unfortunately the above statement is partially incorrect. The X11 driver will provide graphics acceleration to those application supporting EGL/GLES, these applications are in the minority under X11. You won't get a full accelerated graphical desktop experience as per x86, unfortunately it's myth that this is achievable in the short/media term. One of the benefits of the X11 drivers are for those wanting to port an existing GLES/OpenCL application to run on the FireFly or those wanting to develop a new application.
The Mali driver don't cover Video acceleration as this is covered by another set of drivers which haven't been ported across. | 
