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nobody else can provide the drivers and even regular users need drivers sometimes
Strictly speaking there are people downstream of us that could do this (Samsung/Google in this case) but supporting Linux environments tends to be quite far down the priority list. We do this in an effort to provide an easily accessible, relatively cheap development platform to those wishing to develop GLES applications on Mali hardware, but we're by no means the gatekeepers to providing such support!
bonus points to the thread you linked because you all mentioned "feh"
Are you a dev?
Cheers,
Chris
I am very computer sometimes, others not so much. It's true that there is not much help from Samsung or Google on this front! I was very glad to find the drivers here, even more now that I start to see how they are put together.
So far EFL compiled from git, the biggest hurdle is that -lGLESv2 and -lEGL are both stubs, missing everything you would normally expect to find in them with the actual functionality implemented in libmali.so, so everything that links either of those needs to -lmali as well or undefined symbol glTexImage2D, etc. Caught at configure time building EFL. That is why chromium from ubuntu doesn't access the acceleration features too, I'd assume, because it doesn't link in libmali.so.
I think it will work now, but there's an hour of compiling left maybe or more before I see, and it's time for bed now!
Kingdon
