Comment # 8 on bug 1213614 from Chester Lin

(In reply to Chester Lin from comment #7)
> (In reply to Chester Lin from comment #6)
> > Created attachment 868425 [details]
> > GNOME screenshot
> > 
> > (In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #5)
> > > You might be the first persion in the world trying this driver. I suggest to
> > > rename this DRI driver in the hope that things fall back to a more generic
> > > DRI driver (probably swrast/llvmpipe).
> > 
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I tried to remove the original msm_dri.so and then manually created a
> > "msm_dri.so link file" points to swrast_dri.so but it still didn't work.
> > 
> > However, I accidentally found a downstream firmware "a690_gmu.bin" from here:
> > 
> > https://github.com/ironrobin/x13s-alarm/tree/trunk/x13s-firmware
> 
> The original file source should be from linux-source aarch64-firmware repo:
                                         "linux-surface"
   Sorry for the typo.
> 
> https://github.com/linux-surface/aarch64-firmware/tree/main/firmware/qcom
> 
> > 
> > I copied the firmware blob and then GNOME works now. (See attached
> > screenshot)
> > 
> > Besides, I checked the main branch of mesa upstream and found that QCOM
> > Adreno 690 has been supported although the commits are not yet included in
> > any release tag:
> > 
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/
> > 210c6c11cc61c8f53c2c5506e97084dc5f9f2270
> > 
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/
> > 64e93ca9a1744a81eb12a2c72de1aa8774c80ae2
> > 
> > Since not sure when the a690_gmu.bin will be upstreamed to linux-firmware,
> > maybe I could try building mesa packages based on the latest mainline in
> > order to ensure that the later release tags should be available for running
> > mesa-dri on X13s?