On 2017-09-19 12:27 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: mali-midgard-dkms > Severity: serious > > The package description says: > > > This provides the kernel module for the ARM Mali 'midgard' GPU series > > in dkms format. This covers the 6xx and 7xx GPU hardware devices. You > > need this kernel module as well the binary drivers to make the > > hardware work. > > If that's the case, and this kernel module doesn't do any good without > the binary drivers, then this package should go to "contrib", not > "main".
That's a good point. The plan was always to upload it to contrib originally, but clearly I have failed to actually do so. > If this kernel module has uses without the binary drivers (e.g. if it > can be made to work with the reverse-engineered driver instead), then > the description should make that clear. The mali reverse-engineering effort has recently restarted after being moribund for a few years, (https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima) and it's possible that this driver will be useful there, but I don't know that yet. I'll check with that project and unless there is a prospect of this driver being used by free software I'll move it. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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