06-24-2016, 10:54 AM
hi, I'm a backer of the 2gb pine and have been following this github request from Recalbox (github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/issues/674#issuecomment-228308760) as it was my intention to make a console with the pine.
In a nutshell
Creator : For the pine64, i don't manage to get a kernel with a working framebuffer, so, it's in pause for the moment.
Sak3r: Allwinner just released the mali 400 64 driver for pine64!
Creator: The user space driver was already available for the 450 which is known to work on the 400 too.
The missing part is the kernel : http://malideveloper.arm.com/wp-content/...stack1.png
The board manufacturer is supposed to make a kernel available for his board.
This is done for the rpi or the odroids. For the pine64, the official website refers to some community kernels. When you talk to the people of the community who did these kernel, these say that the job is not done from the manufacturer, and that their kernel probably doesn't work for the gpu while this is not the part there have worked on.
Does this mean this driver is next to useless?
In a nutshell
Creator : For the pine64, i don't manage to get a kernel with a working framebuffer, so, it's in pause for the moment.
Sak3r: Allwinner just released the mali 400 64 driver for pine64!
Creator: The user space driver was already available for the 450 which is known to work on the 400 too.
The missing part is the kernel : http://malideveloper.arm.com/wp-content/...stack1.png
The board manufacturer is supposed to make a kernel available for his board.
This is done for the rpi or the odroids. For the pine64, the official website refers to some community kernels. When you talk to the people of the community who did these kernel, these say that the job is not done from the manufacturer, and that their kernel probably doesn't work for the gpu while this is not the part there have worked on.
Does this mean this driver is next to useless?