Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-arm (88 mails)

["Joop Boonen" <joop.boonen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm investigating which GPU drivers are most compatible with GPL.

Below you can see the answer I got from ARM about the Mali driver.
As you can see the GL ES part isn't and probably won't be open sourced in
the near future.

Regards,

Joop.


[From Herve Lebreton - ARM Technical Support]

Hello joop,

> I'm very happy that you opened up the 2D part of the Mali drivers.

The kernel driver was GPLed in order to comply with Android requirements.

> I understood that the GL ES drivers for the Mali GPU are not open
> source.
> I've read they are in the Mali DDK.
> I wonder who is allowed to use the DDK and if it's opensource? If not
> are
> there any plans to opensource the DDK?

The DDK in user space is not open source and we have no plans to change
this at the moment. Only ARM/Mali licensee have full access to the DDK
source code so the normal procedure is that if you have any queries you
should contact your SOC designer/ARM licensee (Depending on the request
they may push it to ARM).

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Hervé.

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