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How can I compile Mali-T764 DRIVERS on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 on RK3288 device ?

Ahmad Amr

Hi,

I'm establishing a startup company and decided to use ARM devices as thin clients for my company's VDI solution. I have recently bought an RK3288-based device which uses a MALI-764 GPU. The device has Ubuntu 14.04 installed, but it is missing the 3D Hardware Acceleration functionality due to missing MALI 764 drivers.

However, I found the drivers available on Developer.

My question is: How can I compile these drivers to gain full 3D hardware acceleration on my linux-based device?

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  • 0 in reply to Michael McGeagh

    Hello Michael McGeagh,

    Thank you very much for the update on Mali T764 GPU support for RK3288.
    Would this also include VPU support for video encoding/decoding via gstreamer ?

    Do you plan to offer a beta or pre-release of your driver blob for interested developers ?
    It would be useful to start software-integration and end-user tests as early as possible.
    -early testing could save time and offer better overall customer experience
    -tests done by the user community could show if your drivers are mature enough for
    productive use

    How could an interested developer gain access to pre-release blobs ?
    Any download site available ?


    I got one of these new TV boxes which offer dual-boot

    Android 4.4 or Ubuntu 14.10. I prefer to use Ubuntu on

    this box and this works really well apart from missing VPU/GPU support.
    Bitkistl: Ugoos UT3 dual boot


    This would be another device waiting for MALI 764 drivers:
    Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A17 CPU Android & Ubuntu Mini PC



    Best Regards,

    Peter Bauer

    http://bitkistl.blogspot.com

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  • 0 in reply to Michael McGeagh

    Hello Michael McGeagh,

    Thank you very much for the update on Mali T764 GPU support for RK3288.
    Would this also include VPU support for video encoding/decoding via gstreamer ?

    Do you plan to offer a beta or pre-release of your driver blob for interested developers ?
    It would be useful to start software-integration and end-user tests as early as possible.
    -early testing could save time and offer better overall customer experience
    -tests done by the user community could show if your drivers are mature enough for
    productive use

    How could an interested developer gain access to pre-release blobs ?
    Any download site available ?


    I got one of these new TV boxes which offer dual-boot

    Android 4.4 or Ubuntu 14.10. I prefer to use Ubuntu on

    this box and this works really well apart from missing VPU/GPU support.
    Bitkistl: Ugoos UT3 dual boot


    This would be another device waiting for MALI 764 drivers:
    Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A17 CPU Android & Ubuntu Mini PC



    Best Regards,

    Peter Bauer

    http://bitkistl.blogspot.com

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  • 0 Arm Employee Badge in reply to Peter Bauer

    Hi peba,

    Would this also include VPU support for video encoding/decoding via gstreamer ?

    You would have to contact Rockchip regarding this, as the VPU in the RK3288 is not ARM's IP, so we have no drivers to release for this.

    Note that the driver we are releasing is just the Mali GPU driver, not an entire BSP.

    Do you plan to offer a beta or pre-release of your driver blob for interested developers ?

    No, the majority of time spent to release these drivers is not in the engineering work, but in the testing and legal. These will still hold true for beta/pre-release candidates so you wouldnt get them much quicker.

    To help with your scheduling, the fbdev version should be out this week, with the X11 version to quickly follow.

    I hope that helps.

    Kind Regards,

    Michael McGeagh