Looking at this post
Graphics and Compute Development on Samsung Chromebook « Mali Developer Center Mali Developer Center
I have see that is possible to have Mali GPU hardware acceleration on Samsung ARM Chromebook with Ubuntu.
On the post you guide all the process to prepare an sd card to install ubuntu with mail support on chromebook, could you provide even the imagefile of the generated sd card?
Thanks
Hi yebyen,
I think you've strayed further than we have in our testing we typically pull X up to the point that we can run windowed/fullscreen GLES apps, but that's about it. Maybe someone from our BSP team can comment further on what should/shouldn't work.
yebyen wrote: I think I missed something more fundamental though, forget any compositor, once I think I had configured EGL support securely, the performance of fairly simple things (I think?) like smooth opaque window transform in the default openbox performed just abysmally. They seemed to be not using whatever kind of acceleration we have enabled here.
yebyen wrote:
I think I missed something more fundamental though, forget any compositor, once I think I had configured EGL support securely, the performance of fairly simple things (I think?) like smooth opaque window transform in the default openbox performed just abysmally. They seemed to be not using whatever kind of acceleration we have enabled here.
I think most window managers etc tend to use a GL backend, which Mali does not support, it supports GLES. This means they tend to revert to software rendering, which explains the poor perf of window transforms. GLES apps should still run at expected perf. There are a few GLES window managers out there to my knowledge, but you would probably need to pull them in without pulling in the mesa libs they almost always depend upon!
Hth,
Chris