> So Broadcom is paying someone to write an open driver for their own GPU. This doesn't benefit anyone else in the ARM ecosystem in the slightest.
I would not be so cynical. It'd be quite unlikely that properly upstreamed Mesa and/or kernel code wouldn't lead to any idea sharing or refactoring/optimization of the common code used by all drivers.
I would not be so cynical. It'd be quite unlikely that properly upstreamed Mesa and/or kernel code wouldn't lead to any idea sharing or refactoring/optimization of the common code used by all drivers.