According to my research (read: Wiki-wandering), the Incredible has an Adreno 200 GPU. I'm curious as to the existence of a hardware-accelerated driver and matching libgl.so (not sure if a special libgl is necessary, but I know that nVidia and ATI do it for their proprietary drivers on Linux), and if it doesn't exist, where would be a good place to start learning about how to write it myself. Any help would be appreciated.
I could be mistaken here, but since the Adreno 200 is also in the HTC Nexus One, wouldn't using those drivers be sufficient?
sucker4pa1n said:
I could be mistaken here, but since the Adreno 200 is also in the HTC Nexus One, wouldn't using those drivers be sufficient?
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Yes, same GPU. Don't know if those drivers will work or not, however. Worth a shot.
This would be great
Not that important yet, but worth checking.
Main target is i5700, but maybe there may be an open-source PowerVR driver for Linux with benefit for GalaxyS as well.
There Might Be An Open PowerVR Driver In Q3'11
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTAzNg
Will see.
Thx for info!
Q3 2011?
mmm...i hope sooner!
We need more power and graphics driver can make a difference.
But AMD/ATI made open driver soo long time ago, and we still never get even equal driver.
I bumped into this and didn't find any threads on xda so I decided to share. Register and tell Qualcomm what you think. Let them know there are quite many users who want their Desire to have hardware accelerated UI.
https://developer.qualcomm.com/forum/qdevnet-forums/graphics-optimization-adreno™/8081
All credits go to the thread starter srdjan_segvic
Now we have it:
https://developer.qualcomm.com/foru...-optimization-adreno/8081?page=3#comment-6691
Re: QSD 8250, Adreno 200 hardware-related proprietary ...
In order to provide enthusiasts with recent improvements made to Snapdragon's Adreno graphics drivers, Qualcomm has made the updated Adreno 2xx graphics driver binaries available here. Note that you will most likely need to be a developer to take advantage of these new drivers since they'll require integration with the CAF release of ICS, but Qualcomm is providing these driver binaries "as is" to those of you who have requested them.
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16 Mar 2012, 09:49 am
The qualcomm forum admin just commented in the appropriate thread:
https://developer.qualcomm.com/foru...-optimization-adreno/8081?page=3#comment-6691
Re: QSD 8250, Adreno 200 hardware-related proprietary ...
In order to provide enthusiasts with recent improvements made to Snapdragon's Adreno graphics drivers, Qualcomm has made the updated Adreno 2xx graphics driver binaries available here. Note that you will most likely need to be a developer to take advantage of these new drivers since they'll require integration with the CAF release of ICS, but Qualcomm is providing these driver binaries "as is" to those of you who have requested them.
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16 Mar 2012, 09:49 am
Hey, ICS4Desire developers, is that enough?
DAFUQ? Intresting ... statement from the ICS devs would be great
Better late than never...
Good for us
FINALLY!
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Gr8 news, thanks.
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Wow i cant believe, i guess it's safe to say official CM9 is coming to Desire.
I just wanna cry!!
Don't read to much into it yet It might not be as helpful as ppl think.
Great news!!! Now devs have everything for their new roms!
Direct link
For conviniance here is a direct link:
developer.qualcomm.com said:
Adreno 2xx User-mode Android ICS Graphics Driver (1.5 mb)
Updated 13 Mar 12
This release contains the user-mode driver binaries for Qualcomm's Adreno 2xx GPU on Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich. It has been tested with the CAF release M8960AAAAANLYA1030. Supports any Adreno 2xx GPU on Android ICS.
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Let's be optimistic!
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Just gave it a try with latest dk_zero_cool-rom. Took the files from the package and pushed them to the appropriate places. System came up, but running chrome seems more buggy than with the old version. There seem to be lots of locking and out-of-memory exceptions. will give tiamats latest kernel a try now...
Update: no luck with Tiamat_Bravo-v031412 as well. I've attached a logcat if anyone is interested in looking at this
I suspect that just pushing the files directly might be buggy, people will probably find that with roms will need to be recompiled against these binaries to get the most out of them. Could well be wrong mind you but certainly think wuld be the most logical step
I'm not sure if a simple recompile will help. These are all dynamic modules, as far as I understand this it shouldn't make much difference. especially since the package doesn't contain any headers but just the libs and some firmware.
I'm pretty sure atleast kernel has to be "reworked" for new drivers.
I wouldn't bet one euro on that! Legendary Qualcomm
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While this is better than nothing, let's first give the talented devs at XDA a crack at this before passing judgment. Hopefully once they work their magic, we can get a more polished product in a shorter timeframe.
I'll be impressed if ICS can be implemented on the desire as well as gingerbread was. Let's not forget that the desire launched with Android 2.1 (maybe even 2.0 in some areas?) if I'm not mistaken.
Well I be damned...
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Don't read to much into it yet It might not be as helpful as ppl think.
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Great to see you here, i heard the news about this, afaik ics for qsd8k couldve been fixed last year LOL, if this is the good stuff, pusing adreno binary files should error the sys
I was really amazed since many devices produced still uses ARMv6.
Porting ICS, CM9, and MIUI4 with the help of official drivers can speed up and gain true HWA (hardware acceleration)
http://www.groubal.com/ics-drivers-compiled-for-armv6-from-qualcomm/#signatures
PLS. go there and sign for the campaign of these drivers.
ARMv7 has been provided with these. so also pls help the ARMv6 campaign
Galaxy Y has ARMv6
thanks and regards,
former sgy-mates
I think our device has Broadcomm
broadcom is the chipset while arm6 is the processor. please don't get confused by this kind of information
Those drivers are for qualcomm armv6 processors but our device uses broadcom bcm21553
to make it clear...broadcom is a vendor name. bcm21533 is the chipset series number used in our device. while armv6 is the processor. qualcom and broadcom is sure different vendor but they use same processor in some of their product. thats why some of the source code used in armv6 qualcom could be usefull for developing our device either. I hope this info could be helpfull
@kurotsogi : thanks for the info very helpfull
and i signed the petiton pls all SGY uysers it could be helpfull for use to in some way or the other....
Oh yea ) sorry all . But it can still be useful if a source is compiled for an armv6.
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