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Mali GPU development boards

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Note: This was originally posted on 12th October 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

While there are a variety of Mali GPU licensees currently designing Mali GPUs into their SoCs, there are not necessarily many development boards available to the general public.

In order to provide application developers on Mali GPU-based projects with the hardware they need to get their work done, we would like to gain a strong (and accurate) understanding of what needs to be made available. What are the things you look for in a development platform?
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 4th November 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

    From my perspective I would like to see more openess of the drivers.
    Even if they can be released in binary format only,it would be nice to have them downloadable directly from here and even the beta status in case new functionality gets introduced, to get ahead with development.
    For example we are dealing with the Mali 200 dev board now,and we are told that the android bsp will be available to selected customers only initially.
    It would be nice if there wasn't this kind of discrimination but everyone,even a simple end users who just bought a device using mali and want to make his own app or port an existing one,can access to them.


    Indeed the drivers will be provided in binary format directly from the Mali Developer Center. The aim is to provide developers all they need to get started in one place  ;)
    On your last note; it's more a question of availability - this is early stage hardware that is not manufactured in large volumes yet unfortunately. We therefore need to qualify these requests and use a queuing system. Have you requested a board btw?
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 4th November 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

    From my perspective I would like to see more openess of the drivers.
    Even if they can be released in binary format only,it would be nice to have them downloadable directly from here and even the beta status in case new functionality gets introduced, to get ahead with development.
    For example we are dealing with the Mali 200 dev board now,and we are told that the android bsp will be available to selected customers only initially.
    It would be nice if there wasn't this kind of discrimination but everyone,even a simple end users who just bought a device using mali and want to make his own app or port an existing one,can access to them.


    Indeed the drivers will be provided in binary format directly from the Mali Developer Center. The aim is to provide developers all they need to get started in one place  ;)
    On your last note; it's more a question of availability - this is early stage hardware that is not manufactured in large volumes yet unfortunately. We therefore need to qualify these requests and use a queuing system. Have you requested a board btw?
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