(08-30-2016, 01:51 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: ... it really doesn't buy you anything except an experimental kernel , a bloated image , probably performance degradation , and a very limited in-memory accelerator for openGL GLES; granted, 'some' things will work with it, and if you are 'needing' that 'something' (deliberately left un-mentioned) then by all means go for installing mali... but, you are going to be frustrated if you are not a skilled developer.
That indeed does help Mark... that is the information hasn't really been mentioned, and wouldn't be known generally... but if that is all the Mali binary blob brings with it... what is all the fuss about it being the next best thing since the wheel?
Or is this because in it's current state, not everything is accessible yet? And because it's a binary... any bugs or issues are resolvable as the source code is not available? I thought the whole point of the mali binary (and HW acceleration, as per the thead title!) was that it basically unlocked more of the power of the onboard GPU, making things like video playback, etc, less CPU bound, and let the more capable and power efficient GPU do the work.