07-02-2016, 10:33 AM
(06-23-2016, 03:03 PM)ssvb Wrote: A short answer. Mali is only useful for 3D graphics. In principle, 2D graphics can be treated as a subset of 3D and some 2D applications may be accelerated too (such as Qt5 applications), but this is rather uncommon in Linux. For example, the popular lightweight LXDE/XFCE/MATE desktops don't use or need any 3D acceleration at all.
Wait, so there's no extra 2D acceleration at all from the DRM blob? I know there's a ton of "can't load xxx kernel module" messages from fbturbo, so I figured there'd be some performance improvement: but I guess those are all DRI2 (e.g. 3D) related?