Ubuntu 16.04 with Mali Drivers anyone?

mac-l1

Hi sghazagh,

Sounds great! Does your release include X11 mali EGL/GLES kernel/user space drivers so that X11 apps can use EGL/GLES? And VPU? That would be awesome, and is actually my goal: just to get a normal X11 ubuntu desktop that can run X11 apps like kodi, mplayer, vlc, etc.

Right now I am working on mainline linux. Not quite there yet. I have ubuntu 16.04 running on my firefly with kernel 4.6.x with mali r6p0 kernel and user space drivers, and also drm and armsoc display drivers. Functionally regular ubuntu X11 packages/apps using EGL/GLES (like es2gears, glmark2, ...) run out of the box with mali EGL/GLES support, however performance is terribly slow right now. When running ubuntu's kodi full-screen (1080p) I get 3-5 fps! Have the feeling that the mali drivers are not the bottleneck but more the DRM or armsoc drivers not mature yet. And now things are quite tricky to proceed as this stuff is becoming more complex alltogether and X11 drivers are not my expertise.

Also got VPU service running on some other mainline branch so that should be easily mergable. And also noticed that rockchip is working on RGA support based on DRM themselves.

So things are slowly progressing. However dont know yet if there is decent audio support for firefly in mainline kernel.

Cheers -- mac-l1