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Recommeded community board with Mali rendering to framebuffer ?

David Hill

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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    Hi ddhill.

    ddhill wrote:

    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.

    The kernel and userspace versions have to match, so whichever half you have better control over - probably kernel as they release binary blobs of the userspace I believe - you need to integrate that kernel driver into the kernel. Someone has probably already done this work, and should be available in their repo?

    I'll ask around internally for any advice on the other boards, but to my knowledge the Odroid should support this usage, so it might be worth asking at their forums as well.

    Thanks,

    Chris

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    Hi ddhill.

    ddhill wrote:

    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.

    The kernel and userspace versions have to match, so whichever half you have better control over - probably kernel as they release binary blobs of the userspace I believe - you need to integrate that kernel driver into the kernel. Someone has probably already done this work, and should be available in their repo?

    I'll ask around internally for any advice on the other boards, but to my knowledge the Odroid should support this usage, so it might be worth asking at their forums as well.

    Thanks,

    Chris

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