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[–] Bizz917@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I believe it when useable in emulators in Android. Especially for Mali GPUs.

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

End of the article mentions the following:

Android was not mentioned by either Arm or Collobora, so I’d assume Arm will still focus their resources and provide closed-source Mali GPU drivers for Android, while expanding their support for Panfrost on Linux.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

android emulators can ship their own userland drivers, this is how a lot of android emulators ship turnip drivers which boast expanded vulkan feature support and sometimes better performance. and considering the open source nature, i can easily see someone porting it for rom usage especially considering how much of a meme mali drivers are on android and emulation community

[–] Bizz917@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] donuts@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know much about ARM, but this is good right?

It seems that the more officially supported, open source GPU driver stacks we have, the better.

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Of course it's good! Especially for GNU/Linux on mobile.

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