Open ARM GPU drivers

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Covers the state of open-source 3D drivers for ARM GPUs a year after Lima appeared, surveying specific reverse-engineering projects and their developers: Lima for ARM Mali (Luc Verhaegen, Connor Abbott, Ben Brewer), freedreno for Qualcomm Adreno (Rob Clark), an open Tegra driver (Erik Faye-Lund), Vivante GC (Wladimir J. van der Laan), Broadcom VideoCore, and Imagination PowerVR. Describes project status and impact on enabling GNU/Linux on ARM hardware and concludes with a demo of the Lima driver running on a full GNU/Linux system.

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