[Gta04-owner] Non-free drivers for powervr available ?

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 02.07.2013 um 11:07 schrieb Adrien Dorsaz:

> Hello,
> 
> Does someone know if we have non-free powervr drivers and if we are able
> to install them on Debian ? If so, is there any documentation (how
> should I compile my kernel, package, ...) ?

Yes, everything is where it should be :)

The latest hw-validation (neil-plus) kernel already includes the drivers.

And a documentation is here:

	http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/page/Video-3D/

> I've found some documentation on TI website (not sure if it's thee good
> one...), but I don't know anything about that, so I ask you before
> spending time on reading their documentation.
> 
> My goal is to test Gnome 3 on my phone, but they need EGL (even to show
> their onscreen keyboard...) and so I thought I need 3D drivers.

Here are the libraries as .deb packages:

	http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/debian/dists/experimental/main/

Some technical background:
* PVR needs a kernel driver (open source) to communicate from user space
with the GPU
* there are non-free libraries and some binary (a microkernel) injected by
the pvrsrvinit tool
* there are different precompiled binaries for armel and armhf
* these have simply been repacked into the .deb mentioned above (plus some
symlinks)
* if you need the full SDK, please download it from the TI pages.

Please share experiences.

Nikolaus