mesa-lima

> I see Mali 400 GPU. Is this GPU now fully open source? If you are talking about drivers (rather than the GPU itself), there are reverse engineered drivers: https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima/ https://github.com/yuq/linux-lima https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima For the newer Mali GPUs there is the Panfrost driver: https://notabug.org/cafe/chai https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/panfrost https://rosenzweig.io/blog/

Nice to see open GPU drivers freedreno and etnaviv being able to run complete desktop environments. Looks like lima might join the party too, eventually https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima/issues/29

I phrased it incorrectly. The work is not done necessarily by the mesa project, but within its framework. The degree of activity of each project varies. Mali 400 (Allwinner A20) https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima Adreno 2xx, 3xx, 4xx https://github.com/freedreno https://mesamatrix.net/ VC4 (Raspberry Pi) https://github.com/anholt/mesa/wiki/VC4 If the VC4 or Mali driver mature, then that'd be a huge step forward.

There's also the EOMA68 project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop And somebody else who appears to be building a shader compiler for the Mali 400 GPU here: https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima If both these projects succeed that would be a fully free arm laptop with a fully free GPU driver. Apparently it will also be possible to print out the laptop itself using a 3d printer apparently being designed and built by that same EOMA68 guy to deliver the boxes people already ordered. Also it looks like the touchpad is just a little square of lcd touchscreen. If that part of the design is kept theoretically you could play quake inside the touchpad.