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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 18:58:09 JST minute

   ARM wants to officially support the open-source panfrost GPU driver https://www.arm.com/company/news/2023/07/arm-expands-open-source-partnerships

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 19:39:18 JST Wolf480pl

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     @mntmn sounds awesome! But I'm curious what that means in practice.
     How good has Panfrost been so far compared to the proprietary driver? Was ARM doing as much effort as AMD does for its GPU drivers, or were they doing bare minimum?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 19:39:18 JST minute

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl panfrost is really really good IMHO. i don't know the exact role that ARM played here; i think they supplied collabora with documentation, idk if funding also

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 00:32:02 JST minute

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     • Christian Gmeiner

     @austriancoder that would be great, yeah...

   • Christian Gmeiner (austriancoder@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 00:32:03 JST Christian Gmeiner

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     @mntmn I really hope that this is an impulse for other GPU vendors to become more open.