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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 not one of them.

I have 3 different community boards with Mali-400 on them, and have yet to get the satisfaction of a simple GLESv2 app rendering without X11 in the way. Perhaps this is because I am a library guy (not a kernel guy), perhaps it is due to the emphasis on X11 in the distros, perhaps this is because I have not found the right magic incantation.

So I am looking for recommendations for community boards (easily available without NDA), and/or suggestions on what I am missing in setup on the boards I do have.

I have:

Arndale Board-K

Odroid-U3

A20-OlinuXino-Micro

The A20 forums hint that I should be able to get the sunxi dirvers to install/work, but I keep running into kernel/driver mismatches after several iterations.

Thanks in advance.

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Michael McGeagh over 10 years ago +1 verified

Hi David, In the last, we have been successful in running x11 as well as fbdev on the ODROID Mali-400 based platforms. I dont have a U3 to test, but it has worked with the U2, so I am confident that it...

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0 Chris Varnsverry over 10 years ago in reply to Tom Gall

Tom Gall wrote:

If you want to render to a framebuffer (as compared to be able to use the Mali GLES drivers)...

You can render to /dev/fb* using the mali gles drivers, it's just a different window system, or rather the absence of one. It's one of the options in our Chromebook guide for example: Graphics and Compute Development on Samsung Chromebook « Mali Developer Center
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0 Chris Varnsverry over 10 years ago in reply to Tom Gall

Tom Gall wrote:

If you want to render to a framebuffer (as compared to be able to use the Mali GLES drivers)...

You can render to /dev/fb* using the mali gles drivers, it's just a different window system, or rather the absence of one. It's one of the options in our Chromebook guide for example: Graphics and Compute Development on Samsung Chromebook « Mali Developer Center
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0 David Hill over 10 years ago in reply to Chris Varnsverry

Thanks Chris. Thats two Mali based direct to Framebuffer write ups I have. May have to see about ordering a chromebook.
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0 Chris Varnsverry over 10 years ago in reply to David Hill

Hi David,
The chromebook we provide drivers for, but this is not Mali-400 so bear that in mind. We are looking to expand the set of devices we support directly so hopefully this is less of an issue in the future. Odroid-U3 would probably be my pick from your original list, and try and get the simple triangle GLES SDK example running. If you hit any issues, feel free to shout at us here and we will do our best to resolve them with you.
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Chris
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