Hi,
I'm establishing a startup company and decided to use ARM devices as thin clients for my company's VDI solution. I have recently bought an RK3288-based device which uses a MALI-764 GPU. The device has Ubuntu 14.04 installed, but it is missing the 3D Hardware Acceleration functionality due to missing MALI 764 drivers.
However, I found the drivers available on Developer.
My question is: How can I compile these drivers to gain full 3D hardware acceleration on my linux-based device?
Any update on X11 Mali T76x drivers for Firefly development board?
Hi ryan@321,
We've postponed the X11 release as we've been testing our drivers on Firefly with the 3.10 kernel which doesn't support DRM, and this is preventing us from using the "armsoc" X11 back-end for our X11 driver. As the new r5p1 drivers have just been announced, the plan is now to release new r5p1 Mali-T76x GNU/Linux binary drivers for fbdev and X11 if we have a system that supports it. In principle it should be easy to use X11 on the 3.14 Chromium kernel as it is made to run Chrome OS which uses X11. You should expect these drivers to be available online by the end of March.
Best regards,
Guillaume
Thanks for the update.
Have you by change made any other changes to the Firefly 3.10 kernel to compile it successfully with the Mali T764 framebuffer r5p0 drivers?
I deleted the GPU folders and replaced it with the new ones and kept the rockchip folder as mentioned in a previous thread, but keep getting
error compiling mali_kbase.so GPU compile error.
Something like that, can't remember the exact error.
Is it possible to send me the changes or tar'd kernel for Firefly with changes by PM or email?
Maybe I did something wrong, I can load the userspace Mali drivers into my LinuxRFS, it's just the kernel with new GPU drivers I have trouble with.
Compiling the normal Firefly kernel with old Mali drivers, I have no problems with.
I can then compare it to what I did and learn from my mistake.
Would appreciate any help.
busybee have compiled Firefly 3.10 kernel with Mali successfully, and make the patch.
I hope that helps.
Sam Chan
The current firmware release for the Ugoos UT3/UT3S/UM3 TV boxes includes your fbdev mali drivers now:
UGOOS UT3/UT3S/UM3 official linux firmwaries (v0.3.0 15.03.2015)
Ugoos UT3/UT3S/UM3 firmware v 0.3 with Linux released!
Best Regards,Peter Bauer
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