Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?

To: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Cc: ARM <debian-arm@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
From: Nigel Sollars <nsollars@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 08:32:40 -0400
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Has anyone actually attempted to reach out?..

Before the apple drop they did have a Job posted for OpenSource devs to write a dri/drm mesa open driver for these buggers. The job is no longer listed. So clearly there was intent, perhaps they would give details for older revisions.

Just a thought

Nige

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Alan Corey wrote:

> it's an SGX530 GPU.

That is PowerVR, I doubt Debian will ever be able to support this GPU.
Maybe if IMGTEC changes their mind about supporting open source
drivers and releases documentation and code for their GPUs.

--
bye,
pabs

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References:
- Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Nigel Sollars <nsollars@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Nigel Sollars <nsollars@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: David Glaser <dglaser@glaserresearch.net>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com>
- Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
  - From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

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