Re: GSoC Raspberry Pi Graphics project

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:07:56AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> 
>> Brian Schnepp <stebor2jr%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> >I've just recently submitted my proposal for implementing this project
>> >for this year's Google Summer of Code. My proposal specifically
>> >suggests reimplementing the Linux vc4 driver for the NetBSD kernel, so
>> >it uses the same DRM interfaces as the existing nouveau and amdgpu
>> >ports, but without sharing any actual code from the vc4 driver which
>> >is under the GPL license. Ideally, this should be seen as compatible
>> >under Mesa, so existing GLES programs should be able to use it. In
>> >addition to this, some DeviceTree code for the Pi needs to be added.
>> 
>> Writing a DRM driver from scratch seems too much work for a Summer of
>> Code project to me.
>
>What about a driver along the lines of our rk_drm and sunxi_drm?

I think the aim is to be able to use the GPU on all these SoCs, the VC4
DRM driver allows this for the RPi.

I don't think the original project suggestion would have mentioned VC4
if the intent was to just get a dumb framebuffer.

Robert Swindells