Comment # 7 on bug 1213614 from Chester Lin

(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:

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?