Mali

Posted Nov 7, 2017 14:41 UTC (Tue) by TheLessThanAmazing (guest, #119480)
In reply to: Mali by phh
Parent article: An update on the Android problem

> Now, if the driver gets open-sourced... None of those problems are gone!

I'm confused.

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Mali

Posted Nov 7, 2017 17:02 UTC (Tue) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]

>> - libmali.so and mali.ko are version-tied, so mali.ko can't really be mainlined
>> ...
>> Now, if the driver gets open-sourced... None of those problems are gone!
>I'm confused.
Yeah, I'd like to know how the versioned shim, when open-sourced, isn't going to enable a generic free-software shim. Any hint?

(I say this as someone who's an utter fan of magic numbers for -- eg hashes of -- published interfaces, mostly because any magic number and its compatible interface should be interchangeable with anything else which meets the interface and has the magic number. I don't see how that can't work here -- help me out?)

K3n.