DevShanky Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 Armbianmonitor: http://ix.io/27dH I installed the latest 5.4.8 Buster Desktop image on my Orange Pi +2e board but find the Mali drivers are (Utgard) missing or not loaded. I have tried to follow every possible links including (https://linux-sunxi.org/Mali_binary_driver) related to get VDPAU / VAAPI and GPU but with very little success. I want to have HW acceleration enabled for playing MPEG in full screen mode 1920x1280 resolution using mpv. The frame drops are significant. Questions: Are Mali drivers included in this build? If it is then how can I go about adding those drivers. Is there any licencing issues in adding Mali drivers to the Armbian image? Is there any chances of Lima drivers being included in future releases? There are Mali drivers available on ARM developer site that provides GPU Kernel Device drivers. Can I use them to build the custom Armbian image? Appreciate any help in this matter. Thanks Rajesh
DevShanky Posted January 12, 2020 Author Posted January 12, 2020 A quick look at Armbian monitor output revealed that Lima is actually installed. Here is an output for 'sudo modinfo lima' root@orangepiplus2e:~# sudo modinfo lima filename: /lib/modules/5.4.8-sunxi/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima.ko license: GPL v2 description: Lima DRM Driver author: Lima Project Developers alias: of:N*T*Carm,mali-450C* alias: of:N*T*Carm,mali-450 alias: of:N*T*Carm,mali-400C* alias: of:N*T*Carm,mali-400 depends: gpu-sched intree: Y name: lima vermagic: 5.4.8-sunxi SMP mod_unload ARMv7 thumb2 p2v8 parm: sched_timeout_ms:task run timeout in ms (int) How can I setup lima driver to VDPAU? I tried export VDPAU_DRIVER=lima. It looks like I am missing something. Thanks Rajesh
jernej Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 3 minutes ago, Rajesh said: How can I setup lima driver to VDPAU? I tried export VDPAU_DRIVER=lima. It looks like I am missing something. Yes, you are missing something. Lima doesn't support video decoding. What you need is Cedrus. But using it is another story (currently a mess).
Igor Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Rajesh said: Is there any licencing issues in adding Mali drivers to the Armbian image? Its a "minor" issue. Sort this outhttps://github.com/armbian/build/pull/1409 and Mali with binary blobs will be present in Armbian images. The issue is - you are expecting services worth millions of dollars from amateurs. 2 hours ago, Rajesh said: There are Mali drivers available on ARM developer site that provides GPU Kernel Device drivers. Can I use them to build the custom Armbian image? You can build anything to the Armbian if you know what you are doing.
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