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

[Lukas Märdian]

Am 02.07.2013 11:16, schrieb 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.

I've tried it once, and it worked fine – on the framebuffer.
To get Gnome 3 to work (which would be awesome! – especially for the
Letux 7004 tablet) you have to tinker with the Xorg driver/version, I
guess, which might be some more work.

Please share any experiences you have!

BR,
  Lukas

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