Mali400 userland binaries

Hi.

This is more than anything a question for the Raspberry Pi "staff", and not so much to the community. I have been searching for an answer in the forum and on the Wiki, but come up short.

I received my RPi a few weeks ago, and have been tinkering with it for a few hours. I wanted to use Xorg on it, utilizing the on-board Mali 400 GPU, but haven't been able to get it to work properly. I found Linux kernel source for the GPU at http://www.malideveloper.com/, but in order to get OpenGL working with the Mali hardware, ARM proprietary userland binaries are needed. I have seen people suggesting using Mesa instead, but I for one wouldn't want to settle for software emulated OpenGL when there is a Mali GPU present on the board.

Hence, my question is: do you intend to release userland binaries for the OpenGL library for the Mali400 GPU? I know that this has been done for other similar boards, for example the Snowball by Linaro/ST-Ericsson.

Thanks in advance.

The Pi doesn't have a Mali400, but a videocore 4 GPU. Both are very different beasts, and totally incompatible. The Pi supports OpenGLES, not full OpenGL.

More info here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware

The Pi doesn't have a Mali400, but a videocore 4 GPU. Both are very different beasts, and totally incompatible. The Pi supports OpenGLES, not full OpenGL.

More info here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware

Holy crap, that's embarrassing. I wonder where I got that Mali thing from... ever so sorry.

And thanks for the reply.

From the SAMSUNG Galaxy S3.
That't the hype thing with Mali 400 GPU.

Regards,
Vali.

Maybe you got it wrong from here.

Maybe you got it wrong from here.

That's impossible... You're digging up a thread that's almost a year old (why oh why???). The post you're linking to is just 1 month old...

Maybe you got it wrong from here.

That's impossible... You're digging up a thread that's almost a year old (why oh why???). The post you're linking to is just 1 month old...

Didn't notice the dates!