Alberto Ruiz
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Now we just need to kill the binary blob too! :-)
We are happy to announce that OpenGL binary blobs to use the GPU on Mali-based Allwinner platforms with a mainline Linux kernel are now available! See our blog post at http://free-electrons.com/blog/mali-opengl-support-on-allwinner-platforms-with-mainline-linux/ for details
The support for Allwinner platforms has improved a lot in the last few years in the mainline Linux kernel, but the lack of GPU support had always been an issue for a number of projects. Even though having a closed-source support is definitely not as nice as open-source support, it still allows to get OpenGL working, enabling the use of the mainline Linux kernel on Allwinner platforms for a larger number of projects.
See also the Github repository hosting those binary blobs: https://github.com/free-electrons/mali-blobs.
The support for Allwinner platforms has improved a lot in the last few years in the mainline Linux kernel, but the lack of GPU support had always been an issue for a number of projects. Even though having a closed-source support is definitely not as nice as open-source support, it still allows to get OpenGL working, enabling the use of the mainline Linux kernel on Allwinner platforms for a larger number of projects.
See also the Github repository hosting those binary blobs: https://github.com/free-electrons/mali-blobs.
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Pipewire, the linux multimedia gamechanger, is here!
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Because someone recently complained a bit about #Ansible Tower not being open source. It now is. Introducing #AWX :-)
Code: https://github.com/ansible/awx
FAQ: https://www.ansible.com/awx-project-faq
Code: https://github.com/ansible/awx
FAQ: https://www.ansible.com/awx-project-faq
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LIMA IS BACK!!!! WOOHOO!!! At last some hope. //cc +Rob Clark +Peter Robinson
Lima, the reverse engineered driver for Utgard-Malis, got revived recently (https://github.com/yuq?tab=repositories). Adventurous as I am I gave the kernel part a try on some Rockchip boards and after some fixes both the rk3036 and rk3188 can now find their gpus and the driver probes sucessfully.
Right now I'm building the userspace parts to see how far this has actually progressed :-) . Sadly I'll only be able to try that on the somewhat slow rk3036, as the rk3188 still lacks support for its display controllers.
Right now I'm building the userspace parts to see how far this has actually progressed :-) . Sadly I'll only be able to try that on the somewhat slow rk3036, as the rk3188 still lacks support for its display controllers.
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More Rustification of the Desktop stack!
Nayan has been working on Rust bindings to libevdev. since libevdev sits at the bottom of it all, it's the first step in eventually switching input processing to something that's safer than C
https://ndesh26.github.io/programming/2017/09/02/Introducing-evdev-rs/
https://ndesh26.github.io/programming/2017/09/02/Introducing-evdev-rs/
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I had to retire my Sky Hub (SR102) because it didn't support any other DSL settings other than Sky's. Tried to use it as another WiFi hotspot but it goes bonkers without a DNS setting provided by the WAN interface (and it enforces a captive portal).
OpenWRT doesn't support it either.
This sort of practice with consumer hardware should be prohibited. This things are expensive to manufacture and I just had to buy another DSL router just because... :/ CO2 for the win.
OpenWRT doesn't support it either.
This sort of practice with consumer hardware should be prohibited. This things are expensive to manufacture and I just had to buy another DSL router just because... :/ CO2 for the win.
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Red Hat Graphics team looking for another engineer!
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I don't get why Google is still so permissive with off-tree kernel support for Android. At this point Android has so much leverage over the manufacturers that they will do anything they have to to ship their devices.
Google would do the free software community a favor if they demanded mainline/staging kernel support as mandatory to ship any phone. This is not 2005 anymore, it can be done.
Google would do the free software community a favor if they demanded mainline/staging kernel support as mandatory to ship any phone. This is not 2005 anymore, it can be done.
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According to the latest stats on NetMarketShare, Linux now accounts for 3.37% of the operating system market.
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