Freedreno enables Linux on Dragonboard 820c 96Boards
summary
Freedreno runs on the Dragonboard 820c delivering an open-source Adreno 530 driver that boots Linux distributions like Debian and Fedora and shows roughly 4–5× GPU performance over the Adreno 306 on the 410c. The work lands in Mesa 17 and uses about 30 kernel patches (many upstreamed) so Wayland/OpenGL apps and V4L2 hardware decode play 4K video; expanded 96Boards adds mini‑PCIe and PCIe‑attached GigE and the board runs, though CPU/GPU clocks are not yet pushed to max.
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