I saw another post mentioning the Samsung Chromebook 2 on this forum but I thought I'd ask the question outright. Are there any or will there be any plans for ARM to release OpenGL ES and Open CL drivers for HW accel support on the new Samsung Chromebook 2 laptops? As far as I can tell the 13" model uses a Samsung Exynos 5420 SoC with ARM Mali T628 GPU. Will there be a guide for this machine similar to the one posted here? Graphics and Compute Development on Samsung Chromebook « Mali Developer Center
The first step will be some path to install Linux on it. I'd expect that will happen within the first 24 hours of hardware availability :-) I'm optimistic it'll be exactly the same path as the first chromebook.
Then after that it's probably more a matter of availability of the chromebook 2 kernel source code, the state of the Mali kernel driver and the user space binary drivers. <speculation> It would be fun if the current Mali kernel driver + mali user space drivers "just work" . This is not outside of the realm of the possible. </speculation>
I'll be trying this as soon as I receive my chromebook2.
Stay tuned.
I think the existing userspace binary will work if you integrate the kernel driver with the new kernel. We will be releasing binaries from a more recent driver release however.
Any further news on the r4p0 userspace drivers?
Any day now. Our guide is for the original Chromebook, and these drivers are intended for that, but I'm not aware of any technical reason they shouldn't work with other devices with the same winsys and a proper kernel integration. If you run into any trouble then let us know.
Thanks,
Chris
Hi chrs,
It's stalled with legal currently, so hopefully not long.
As for GL perf comparisons, ask and ye shall receive: Google Nexus 10 vs. Rockchip rk3288 in GFXBench – unified graphics benchmark based on DXBenchmark (DirectX) and GLBenchm…
Hope this helps,
The Chromebook 2 has been shipping for a couple of weeks at least. Any word on Mali T604 user space r4 driver release? Or Chromebook 2 driver integration?
Also, there's another interesting product, or reference platform, here:
This one has a Mali-T764 GPU. Are there published GL perf comparisons between the T604 and T764?