On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:50:30AM +0000, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
> On 23/03/2019, Normen Wohner <nor...@wohner.eu> wrote:
> > I have now successfully installed OpenBSD
> > on my Netbook, however Graphics performance
> > is abysmal.
> > I know that sadly Linux uses binary blobs for
> > the GMA500 as it is a licensed Powervr chip.
> > Any idea on how to "maybe" get faster graphics
> > working?
> > I'm willing to do the legwork.
> >
>
> I assume you've tried fw_update to attempt from firmware.openbsd.org ?!
>
> As it is not listed in man 4 intel (don't know how up to date that is)
> maybe someone is already porting the firmware driver from freebsd.
> Otherwise I'd guess you would have to port a linux driver yourself.
>
> Best Wishes
>
There is a GPLv2 driver in linux.
"experimental 2D KMS framebuffer driver for the Intel GMA500 ('Poulsbo')
and other Intel IMG based graphics devices"
No one is looking at adding support for obscure Intel PowerVR parts from
over ten years ago with no documentation and incomplete and badly
licensed code. Running fw_update won't change that.
