{"id":32286,"date":"2020-09-18T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=28bc901767b3fd27c7abad46902cf09a"},"modified":"2020-09-18T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T01:30:18","slug":"arm-is-now-backing-panfrost-gallium3d-as-open-source-mali-graphics-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32286","title":{"rendered":"ARM is now backing Panfrost Gallium3D as open-source Mali graphics driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/132359\/arm-is-now-backing-panfrost-gallium3d-as-open-source-mali-graphics-driver\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: This is a delightful change of pace.\r\nNvidia better not fuck it up.<\/div><blockquote><p>Most information presented during the annual X.Org Developers&rsquo; Conference doesn&rsquo;t tend to be very surprising or ushering in breaking news, but during today&rsquo;s XDC2020 it was subtly dropped that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Arm-Panfrost-Going-Official\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arm Holdings appears to now be backing the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D driver<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=search&amp;q=Panfrost\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Panfrost<\/a> has been developed over the past several years as what began as a reverse-engineered effort by Alyssa Rosenzweig to support Arm Mali Bifrost and Midgard hardware. This driver had a slow start but Rosenzweig has been employed by Collabora for a while now and they&rsquo;ve been making steady progress on supporting newer Mali hardware and advancing the supported OpenGL \/ GLES capabilities of the driver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a major departure from previous policy for ARM, since the company always shied away from open source efforts around its Mali GPUs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most information presented during the annual X.Org Developers\u2019 Conference doesn\u2019t tend &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}