Hello,
I am currently working on a porting project with various people (like Myy for the kernel mainline patch, Armbian, and other developers).
I've read all the discussions about future drivers with the support of Vulkan, but I get the impression that everyone is rebooting the ball .... Rockchip thinks they can not implement Vulkan because they do not would not have the ARM and ARM authorizations on his side tells us that it is Rockchip to do the so-called driver and they have the permissions / licenses to do so.
In our case, the fact of not having drivers with the support of the API Vulkan, we pose problems of graphical performance.
I would like to know if by the greatest of chance, ARM, would be able to make us the drivers with the support of the API the time that the "problems" with Rockchip is solved and they finally develop us the drivers so anticipated.
Because in this case, and in the other similar to the licenses, it is always the community that guns problems and stake that happens above.
So if you could think of communities using your knowledge, materials etc ... Our team would be greatly grateful.
Best regards
Jyu
Hi Jyu,
We don't provide binary drivers directly except for a small number of reference development platforms. Official drivers for any specific commercial chipset must be sourced from the chipset manufacturer, as they will typically need to integrate chip-specific aspects such as GPU power management which are outside of the GPU design we provide.
Vulkan drivers supporting Mali-T760 are already available to our chipset providers to license, if they so desire.
HTH, Pete
Thanks for your reply Peter Harris.So if I understand correctly, it is enough for us to put pressure on Rockchip in our case, so that finally we leave the drivers with the support of Vulkan?I will therefore redirect to them hoping at least to have an answer from them.
And one last thing. Do Firefly drivers all contain Vulkan? (X11, Wayland, fbdev)
Best regardsJyu
That said, on Rockchip-linux Github libmali repository, the main "contributors" redirect people to ARM when asked about Vulkan drivers.
Now, I don't know if the people maintaining that Github repository represent Rockchip by themselves, but still, you might see more and more requests on these forums.