Comments on: Cubieboard 8 Allwinner A80 development board https://armdevices.net/2014/07/26/cubieboard-8-allwinner-a80-development-board/ New video posted every 8 hours, forever Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:40:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: iKrontologist https://armdevices.net/2014/07/26/cubieboard-8-allwinner-a80-development-board/comment-page-1/#comment-16358 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:07:00 +0000 http://138.2.152.197/?p=131654#comment-16358 In reply to Passante Diqui.

Mali Open Source? No not the complete driver stack. However they have released both commercially available license drivers and substitute Open Source drivers for use that fully functional for most any Linux or Android version OS requiring a GPL license:
http://malideveloper.arm.com/develop-for-mali/drivers/open-source-mali-gpus-linux-kernel-device-drivers/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)

The Lima Driver is a reverse engineered Open Source Mali Driver, minus the proprietary DRM component. So having PowerVR Open Source Drivers still isn’t a chip advantage for Imagination. Since they don’t have a full stack Open Source driver either…. yet. They are like most other proprietary drivers merely shimmed into the Linux kernel or driver module :
http://powervr.gnu.org.ve/doku.php

So get your facts straight before making an irrelevant post yourself!

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By: Charbax https://armdevices.net/2014/07/26/cubieboard-8-allwinner-a80-development-board/comment-page-1/#comment-16355 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:50:00 +0000 http://138.2.152.197/?p=131654#comment-16355 In reply to Passante Diqui.

Lots of cubieboards use Mali GPU. I don’t always don’t know answers before asking.

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By: Passante Diqui https://armdevices.net/2014/07/26/cubieboard-8-allwinner-a80-development-board/comment-page-1/#comment-16354 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:39:00 +0000 http://138.2.152.197/?p=131654#comment-16354 mali opensurce? ahahah maybe on day thank to lima project’s guy not because of arm consortium.
please do your homework before asking pointless questions like that.
p.s a80 uses poversvr chipset so mali it not even relevant here.

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