• How hard is it to get Mali drivers on Linaro OS and Arndale board working?

    I'd like to be able to do hardware GPU graphics work on an Arndale board running the Linaro's ubuntu build.  

    How hard is it to set this up?  I'm not sure who to ask, I'll ask the Linaro guys as well but I'm hoping someone on this board…

  • The mathmatic computing result in Shader is not right for Mali 400mp

    I'm using Mali 400mp for doing some mathmetic computing.But the result is not satisfying.

    In my program, I put a float array A by using gluniforlfv() into the shader,and put a Image Texture B by using glTexImage2D() into the shader,use the values in…

  • Where can I find in depth Technical Mali-400 documentation?

    Hello,

    I am looking for Mali-400 documentation. Not high level 'This is a great GPU with 4 pixel shader' powerpoint, but something along the lines of:

    Here is the list of all the CPU accessible registers for the GPU and what happen when you read…

  • ARM Mali Instruction set

    Hi. I'd like to know, is ARM Mali had its own assembler instruction set just like ARM main processor? If so, can I have any list of the instruction along with its opcode? Also, I had a Zyrex ZM7831 ARM tablet models, could it be having the same ARM main…

  • Mali Graphics Debugger: Unable to invoke method for glBufferSubData : null

    When I analyze some games with Mali Graphics Debugger V1.2.1, it brings up large number of prompts: Unable to invoke method for glBufferSubData : null

    I don't know how to resolve this issue. please help me and thanks a lot.

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  • If Mali Graphics Debugger could provide some information about the load of GPU

    Hi all,

    I am working on power consumption about android games. I think GPU consumes more power than other units when playing games.

    I want to know if Mail Graphics Debugger could provide some information about the load of GPU and what cause this situation…

  • Shader programs for Mali-400 GPU

    Hello,

    I was wondering if the open source mali driver made available by ARM is enough to write opengl shader programs. Apparently, it is not a fully functional driver

    "Note that these components are not a complete driver stack. To build a

    functional…

  • X11 Display pointer check bug

    Hi,

    A normal way to integrate Mali on Linux/X11 is to first open a connection with the X server and get an X display pointer via XOpenDisplay(), and pass that to eglGetDisplay() to get the equivalent EGL display pointer.

    We are seeing a bug where sometimes…

  • Initial Look at OpenCL Accelerated SQLite Performance numbers on Mali

    Here's a link to a blog post from today about my work on accelerating SQLite with OpenCL on the ARM based Samsung Chromebook with a Mali T604.

    Details & Early Benchmarks of OpenCL accelerated SQLite on ARM Mali | Tom Gall

    Comments, questions and…

  • open cl error - cannot retrieve platform id

    I am running open cl on a linux machine with ARM processor and Mali GPU. But it is giving an error something like "Unknown error: cannot retrieve platform id" at clGetPlatformId().

    I tried both

      

    cl_uint numPlatforms;//the NO. of …
  • Bad interaction with DRI2 for vsync

    Hi,

    We are working with Mali-400 driver r3p2-01rel0 on Exynos4412, under Linux/X11.

    base: BUILD=RELEASE ARCH=arch_011_udd PLATFORM=default_7a TRACE=0 THREAD= GEOM= CORES=MALI400 USING_MALI400=1 TARGET_CORE_REVISION=0x0101 TOPLEVEL_REPO_URL=Linux-r3p2…

  • Does the DVFS of mali400mp make sense?

    Hi


    Does the DVFS of mali400mp make sense?

    My platform is ODROID, which equipped with the mali400mp GPU.

    I tried to find out how the GPU affect the power consumption of the platform.

    The CPU frequency and bus frequency were all fixed.

    The mali400mp GPU…

  • What is exact double precision performance for Mali T628 MP6 (Arndale Octa Board) ?

    Different sources point to different numbers. On Arndale board I found something about 72 GFLOPS for T604.

    Wikipedia show 109 GFLOPS for T628. Have you hear about performance measurements for this GPU and its theoretical capability ?

    I'm think about using…

  • Mali T6xx kernel driver help

    Hello there,

           I add a job schedule policy ( similar to mali_kbase_js_policy_cfs along with the driver  ) to the driver, and the new driver starts and init normally.

    But it continually report following errors, and…

  • Mali-400 GPU's OpenCL support

    Hi

    I understand that Mali-400 GPU's does not have OpenCL support, can any one share the technical limitations of Mali-400 which limits the OpenCL support.

    Or it can be added ?

    Thanks,

    Mani

  • Recommeded community board with Mali rendering to framebuffer ?

    I am a member of the JavaFX Embedded team, which I will loosely define as JavaFX using (hopefully) GPU accelerated rendering direct to framebuffer on a Linux distro.

    We currently have rendering using 3 different GPU families, but unfortunately Mali is…

  • Is Mali-400 MP GPU Technical Overview/Technical Reference Manual document free to get? If it is, but how could I get it?

    Hi, all

    I have had an access to infocenter.arm.com, but I got nothing but place-holder for Mali-400 MP GPU Technical Overview/TRM.

    I wonder if those document is free to get. And what does it take to get them?

    Best Regards,

    Michael

  • glCompileShader taking a long time

    Hello.

    I am working on a game and one of the device (Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300) with gpu Mali-400MP4, android version 4.0.4) is displaying problems while trying to compile one of the shaders. The gl call glCompileShader takes exceptionally long time…

  • gl_ARB_buffer_storage or equivalent extension

    Since Mali is on UMA systems, this extension would come in extremely handy for more manual control from the user space for memory management. This extension is very capable, but with great power comes great responsibility.

    There is the chance with this…

  • I am new to mali graphics,i want to deveop for t760,can I code in assembler?what is the best way to learn coding?

    What is the best way to learn coding for mali t760?

  • Mali Graphics Debugger, how  can  i  reduce vertex number?

    hi  everyone:

       

         i  use  Mali Graphics Debugger  to analyse an android app

         i  found that the number  of vertex is higher than other  game

         how  can …

  • my puzzles about Mali-400/Mali-450 Linux kernel device driver r3p2-01rel4 source

    Hi, all

    When I'm reading mali kernel driver source r3p2-01rel4, I get confused with some code

    * Is the UMP an essential component for Mali linux kernel device driver?

    * There are macros that set up the Mali GPU resources in mali_utgard.h header file…

  • OpenGL ES 3.1 Image Units

    I am wondering if you will be allowing this to be public knowledge before your drivers are released to support this. I will be implementing a feature in the future that uses image units for on the fly GPU texture decoding, and implementing it in compute…

  • Questions About Mali Job Slot and Address Space

    Hello there,

        I'am developing a job schedule policy for Mali T628. But I am confused about Jos Slot and Address Space:


    1. What does Job Slot mean? What is the relationship between job slot and shader core?


         Mali T628 has 8 shader…

  • Is there a way to prevent system crash caused by the GPU Mali 400?

    Hi!

    I am not sure if I am right here, but maybe somebody can help me?

    I have an Intenso Tab 814 for my daughter to play.

    It crashes on Subway Surfer (it reboots) after some time.

    I thought this might be a temperature problem, but now I detected this:

    When…