XDC 2021 | Lima driver status update 2021 | Erico Nunes
Channel: X.Org Foundation
Date: 2021-09-22

X.org Developers Conference 2021 - September 15-17, 2021 - https://xdc2021.x.org/
Slides and materials: https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/1/contributions/21/

Lima is an open source graphics driver which supports Mali Utgard (Mali-4xx) embedded GPUs from ARM. It’s a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver.

At XDC 2019 there was a presentation about Lima, which happened not long after its initial inclusion in upstream. At that time, it was still missing some important features to be a complete driver. Most of those have been addressed since then and the situation now is notably more stable.

This talk aims to provide a status update on Lima, a review of the more relevant recent work on it, and some possible paths going forward.