bopbopbop 0 May 14, 2019 (edited) Thanks for Armbian, I very much enjoy it on my Cubietruck server. Forgive my ignorance if I have misunderstood something, but I believe that the Lima opensource Mali drivers will shortly be part of the kernel. https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/8/1122 What is the likelihood of Armbian supporting a hardware accelerated desktop using these drivers for the cubietruck and similar boards? It's an old board and is well supported by the project as a server already, so it would be understandable if it was out of scope. Edited May 14, 2019 by bopbopbop 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Igor 1758 May 15, 2019 7 hours ago, bopbopbop said: but I believe that the Lima opensource Mali drivers will shortly be part of the kernel. Drivers are inside the Armbian kernel for several (4) months. 7 hours ago, bopbopbop said: What is the likelihood of Armbian supporting a hardware accelerated desktop Those drivers are not contributing to overall desktop experience and are sadly in an alfa state. Performance is bad. Support for Cubietruck remains unchanged. Allwinner A20 will be around for some time ... have you noticed this? (currently only in kernel 5.1.y or with nightly builds) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bopbopbop Topic author 0 May 15, 2019 Ah right, that makes sense. I know the pinephone is using a Lima supported graphics chip so I'm rather hopeful for a big burst of progress. https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone No, I hadn't heard of the Sata changes - that's ace, thanks for letting me know! That should make a big difference to my set up! 16 hours ago, bopbopbop said: Thanks for Armbian, I very much enjoy it on my Cubietruck server. Forgive my ignorance if I have misunderstood something, but I believe that the Lima opensource Mali drivers will shortly be part of the kernel. https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/8/1122 What is the likelihood of Armbian supporting a hardware accelerated desktop using these drivers for the cubietruck and similar boards? It's an old board and is well supported by the project as a server already, so it would be understandable if it was out of scope. Edit:ha, and also perhaps forgive me for my rather dreadful mid-spelling of accelerated in the title! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tido 155 May 15, 2019 10 hours ago, Igor said: Allwinner A20 will be around for some time it would be interesting to know, if it has the same effect on: Allwinner R40 (sun8i) SoC features a Quad-Core Cortex-A7 ARM CPU 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Igor 1758 May 18, 2019 On 5/15/2019 at 6:42 PM, bopbopbop said: I know the pinephone is using a Lima supported graphics chip so I'm rather hopeful for a big burst of progress. Lima project is generic, unrelated to Pinephone or other specific hardware. I seriously doubt this (yet another remix of A64) will have impact on anything. Development, especially community driven, is slow and sometimes painful process. On 5/15/2019 at 6:42 PM, bopbopbop said: No, I hadn't heard of the Sata changes - that's ace, thanks for letting me know! That should make a big difference to my set up! https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/05/13/how-one-line-of-code-tripled-allwinner-a20-sata-write-performance/ On 5/15/2019 at 7:28 PM, Tido said: it would be interesting to know, if it has the same effect on: Allwinner R40 (sun8i) SoC features a Quad-Core Cortex-A7 ARM CPU It is faster, but R40 runs at half (dvfs is broken) CPU speed which means numbers are not alright. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
