By the way, hi! I’m Lyude, the one who made ^ that presentation. I’m not one for endorsements but @balbes150 is right, Khadas has been a huge help in getting me hardware that I could work on to help move panfrost forward (I have midgard hardware, but it’s old and it doesn’t have great mainline kernel support so getting a system from them that mostly works with an upstream kernel has made things significantly easier). As well, that’s kinda the best you can get right now-the situation has been like this with ARM hardware for a long time. Raspberry Pi’s didn’t used to have open GPU drivers until people started reverse engineering them :). Now broadcom even hires FOSS developers and releases documentation, something they wouldn’t have ever done if they didn’t get a push from people reverse engineering their hardware.
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