On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:17:27PM +0800, Tinker wrote: > Juan, > > Ok you're right this is unimportant. Just for completeness for now, > > Is it possible to do an altogether opensource unaccellerated graphics driver > for MALI today, based on all sources you've seen out there?
I don't know. > > Also what's KMS about, I see https://lwn.net/Articles/568169/ and > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/brezillon-drm-kms.pdf > but don't make too much sense, what's it about? KMS is the name used for the kernel driver on Linux. I don't know what is the correct term for OpenBSD (our kernel also includes DRM, which is an external lib on Linux). > > Anyhow yeah you're right there's much more important things like 64bit. > > Tinker > > On 2016-11-22 10:41, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:05:40AM +0800, Tinker wrote: > > > Juan, > > > > > > Re console: > > > Is there not even console graphics on the ARM boards yet, so only > > > serial > > > interface? > > > > The HDMI/Video port requires a KMS driver. > > > > > > > > Re X: > > > Using open-source drivers only, you can actually run X on the Mali > > > GPU:s > > > (i.e. the chips in most ARM:s), unaccelerated. > > > > IIRC, the most of ARM boards on Linux use a KMS driver + Xorg > > modesetting driver. Anyway, the devs are working on more important > > things for the platform. > > > > > > > > Here's a video showing this on an EOMA68-A20 board in some Linux: > > > https://youtu.be/iM4cDjGY9vY?t=180 . > > > > > > The low speed of the A20 CPU results in some flickering when switching > > > windows and tabs. I think on the modern ~2Ghz ARM:s e.g. RK3399, as > > > its > > > single-thread and memory speed is approx 5x that of the A20, the > > > unaccelerated X should provide a perfect desktop experience (web > > > browsing, > > > openoffice etc., anything except video decoding). > > > > > > It would be super ultra cool to be able to do this on OpenBSD some > > > day. > > > > > > Tinker > > > > > > On 2016-11-22 07:48, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:46:48AM -0700, Haroon Khalid wrote: > > > > > Is there any example of a touch screen like this working with a > > > > > beaglebone > > > > > or raspberry pi for example? > > > > > > > > > > https://www.adafruit.com/product/1601 > > > > > > > > No, we don't have graphical support for the ARM boards yet. > > > > > > > > Try with a "standard" (i.e. without special drivers) touch screen and > > > > i386/amd64. > > > > -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
