Pandrost for the Odroid N2 / N2+ and Khadas VIM3

[NicoD 437]

Hi all.
The Panfrost GPU driver is finally starting to mature for Mali G52 on the Odroid N2/N2+ and Khadas VIM3.
It doesn't perform great yet. But this will improve with time. In this video I show how to activate the panfrost driver on Armbian mainline.

 

To activate panfrost :

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers  
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt upgrade
 sudo reboot

Khadas VIM3 support is in the making. This also works on any other mainline image.
Greetings.
 

 

[Igor 2365]

I just build Gnome image for N2 - except mouse cursor is changing to strange forms, otherwise ... works. Hirsute with 5.12.y kernel.

[NicoD 437]

4 minutes ago, Igor said:

I just build Gnome image for N2 - except mouse cursor is changing to strange forms, otherwise ... works. Hirsute with 5.12.y kernel.

On cinamon it seems to set font color to white, even LibreWrite has it to white. Also strange mouse cursor.
With xfce4 it was also not super stable.

With xpresent it was better.
 

xfwm4 --vblank=xpresent --replace
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_xpresent -t string -s "MODE" --create

I'm happy to see it working.
Also that you can select resolution in OS is awesome. For gaming that's a must. It will be great when panfrost will be more mature.