HW Acceleration Working

[MarkHaysHarris777]

But since the issue is that mali is not the hardware acceleration that we're after... for the sake of clarity, what is? And what is the likelihood of us getting that? Or is it likely that case that Android will be the GPU HW accelerated platform, and linux will be the more lightweight GUI and server platform? This will only remain an issue of contention and confusion until information about this is prominently noted for all to see.

The answer is simple, and nobody is going to like it... so please don't shoot the messager.

... I had a very long talk with longsleep about this on irc some days ago... after I finally pieced together what is really going on here.  I do not want in any way to put words in longsleep's mouth, so please don't hold my feet to the fire for memory nor paraphrasing, and he told me that what it would take to fix this is about $100,000, dedicated and serious developers and about a year and a half.  The monetary amount was just a large amount indicating the magnitude of the problem... 

... but the timing I suspect, based on his professional expertise, is probably correct. Volunteers are not going to be able to do this work on their own any time soon.  That is just the truth.  Also, even if they could devote the time to it, we are talking about reverse engineering a closed system !

So again, I say we are between a very hard rock and a very tight space.  

And once again, longsleep's montra "if you want a computer use linux, if you want video use Android"