IMG BXE4-32 GPU Open Source Plan

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Imagination BXE4-32 GPU will be embedded in VisionFive and StarFive JH7110.

Current Status:

  • BXE series GPU and Linux OS and firmware are supported and upstreamed in Mesa

Next plan:

  • After 2022 Q4, Linux driver will support Vulkan 1.0 and OGLES 3.x
  • Finalize open-source driver (XT series will support by ‘23)
  • After source code release, documentation will also be provided

All updates will be kept and updated in Open Source GPU Driver - Imagination Developer, please stay tuned.

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Hello,

Are there any news when it comes to the kernel driver for the BXE4-32 GPU?

I checked both upstream and in the linked repository for upstreamable kernel modules and couldn’t find any reference to it in the driver.

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Please add your voices to the issue asking for the drivers.

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I think starfive should sponsor them to do the work, if it ever wants the GPU to be anything useful.

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Why you need the GPU Driver Libre? when the Blob firmware is mandatory in Gnu Userland.
Just not make sense…and for me does not matter anything. F#ck Open source Ideology.

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It’s needed because otherwise people can’t improve upon the GPU driver and add support for more APIs as they come along.

Maybe if it was open source we could have real desktop opengl already

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Hi,

Thanks for your open source effort on GPU software stack!
Any updates on this topic/project?

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It seems none of the riscv SoC vendors who’s using the IMG IP is willing to spend the money or effort to upstream the GPU driver. The only upstreaming effort for IMG now is paid by TI for their ARM SoCs.

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It’s driving me insane. I’m waiting and I’ve been waiting for literal years.

I need some update from imagination or starfive about the driver situation, because while there has been progress it hasn’t given us a usable end result yet and I’m honestly getting fed up.

They promised us a driver by last year and they still haven’t delivered. Not even an ugly hacked up out of tree fork mesa.

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