Progress in the Embedded GPU Ecosystem
summary
Linux embedded GPUs now have real, usable drivers: Intel i915 traces to 2004 and supports modern GL/Vulkan, AMD and Qualcomm (Adreno via Code Aurora/Rob Clark) cover recent mobile chips, Nouveau gains Pascal support through reverse engineering roughly every two years, and Vivante mainline (etnaviv, reverse engineered since ~2012, merged ~2015) runs a wide GC200–GC3000 range. Broadcom VC4 has strong single-developer support and is usable on Raspberry Pi, while Imagination and ARM Mali remain partial or upstream-absent. OpenCL support is effectively missing; effort centers on SPIR-V / LLVM / NIR tooling and improving Vulkan/radv and virtualization via Virgil 3D.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:38Agenda
- 8:19Open Source
- 8:49Nvidia
- 10:43Intel AMD
- 14:01Broadcom
- 18:23Vivante
- 20:35ARM
- 22:33Whats next
- 27:33The Big Picture
- 33:40Questions
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