12-30-2015, 07:48 AM
(12-30-2015, 06:50 AM)hlide Wrote: @paulieg, thank you for rectifying and reforming Kommander's conduct in a very subtle way.
I understand Kommander's reaction, it's absolutely natural in the wider US-American cultural context of positivity being valued highly. We're all a product of our environment, no harm done.
(12-30-2015, 06:50 AM)hlide Wrote: My other concern is about Mali driver. I'm also an OpenGL developer but I cannot say I like it the way it is. Since Mantle appeared, things seem to move in the right direction with the future Vulkan. But Mali400 would probably not have a Vulkan version. I try to see the situation of Lima - the open source version of kernel driver - but it doesn't look in good shape as hoped as well (gitarious is gone) so it seems we are stuck with proprietary drivers to allow 2D/3D hardware acceleration and with OpenGL ES.
I'm mostly a fluent C/C++ and assembly coder with solid knowledge in both software and hardware sides. I'm also a baker for PINE64+. But I'm not applying here as I think there are much better people dedicated to Linux than I.
Given some of the posts in this thread and elsewhere, someone who can actually code and is familiar with a part of the problem is well above par, so you might want to reconsider. Perhaps you could start with taking a look at what the linux-sunxi project/others have already done and write a brief overview (in a new thread or on the wiki) of what the current state of affairs is and what might be needed to move it forward for those of us who are less familiar with hw acceleration in general and mali in particular?
-p