Hi Julien,

> Am 01.03.2017 um 19:59 schrieb Julien Boulnois <jboulnois@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I did'nt know about this Pyra project, look like a very nice little toy !

indeed :)

>
> As we started to discuss with Tony on another email thread :
> - etnaviv is used for the GC320 composition core, and is for 2D acceleration only. The open source Xorg driver I'm working on enable composition and XVideo acceleration using etnaviv kernel driver and is mainly benefical for desktop environment and applications.
> - Tomi is working on a SGX driver that will be closed source for legal purpose, but that will enable OpenGLES 3D acceleration in conjonction with Xorg driver through DRI3.
>
> All of this is in alpha state, but usable. You can already try the open source part, but we need to work with Tomi on the 3D part a little more.
>
> I looked at your website but cannot find precise information about the omap5 soc : which chip do you use ?

"OMAP5432AAC"

U-Boot reports it as "OMAP5432-GP ES2.0"

TRM and other documents are AFAIK not public. We have got some under TI NDA a while ago.

BR,
Nikolaus

>
> Regards
>
>
> 2017-03-01 16:08 GMT+01:00 Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>:
> * Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> [170301 00:22]:
> > 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-X15-2DVideoAccelerationviaEtnavivProject
> > > 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.
>
> OK cool.
>
> > 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.
>
> Oh OK I did not know SGX is somehow involved too. Is the plan to
> use them both at the same time?
>
> Personally I was hoping to avoid any SGX binaries and still have
> usable graphics with etnaviv as SGX binaries are dependant on
> specific kernel versions..
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony
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> --
> Julien Boulnois