News from the Embedded GFX Space
summary
Survey of embedded GPUs that names which hardware has usable open-source drivers and what actually works: Intel moves to a Gallium iris driver with gen12 expected to run as discrete GPU; AMD exposes docs so AMDGPU/Mesa and vendor userspace exist; NVIDIA Nouveau needs a proprietary firmware blob so is practically unusable; Qualcomm Adreno is reverse-engineered and upstream; Broadcom VC4/v3d and Vivante drivers exist with the open driver at 80% of proprietary; Mali drivers Lima and Panfrost upstream run Wayland and 3D; OpenCL support is minimal, Vulkan compute works on Intel/AMD; reverse engineering to upstream takes 1–7 years.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:49Intel
- 4:11AMD
- 6:48Nvidia
- 8:43Imagination
- 10:23Qualcomm
- 12:13Broadcom
- 13:23Vivante
- 18:50OpenCL
- 21:58The bigger picture
- 23:09Why opensource
- 25:43Questions
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