On 28/02/17 21:06, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe you've played with this already.. But if not, looks like the
> beagle-x15 folks got etnaviv acceleration working with some extra
> patches against mainline kernel:
>
> https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBoard-X15# BeagleBoard-X15- 2DVideoAccelerationviaEtnavivP roject
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg133272.html
>
> That's the drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv driver, known as BB2D in the
> TRM. No idea about the frame rates, but might be an acceptable open
> source solution for accelerated video for pyra. I think it's the
> same setup on 5432.
Yep, it should work on OMAP5 too.
Julien has been working on a new X driver for etnaviv, with DRI3
support: https://github.com/julbouln/xf86-video-armsoc-omap5
I've written a DRI3 backend for the SGX driver, which works with
Julien's driver.
But all that is still in quite alpha-state.
Tomi