04:25 <alyssa> I've been cleaning up the compiler, fixing bugs and perf issues and such as I go along

11:20 <NeuroScr> I have an allwinner H6 w/a Mali T720

11:20 <NeuroScr> how do I install an hw accelerated opengl stack?

21:56 <NeuroScr> any one alive?

22:00 <HdkR> Yes. As for the answer of your previous question, Panfrost isn't in a state that an end user can have a good experience yet

22:06 <Lyude> NeuroScr: nope; just you

22:07 <NeuroScr> well I’m a developer is there anything I can do to help?

22:07 <HdkR> I need to listen to more Evanescence "Bring me to life" then =o

22:08 <Lyude> NeuroScr: I would talk to alyssa if you do mesa related stuff and have a midgard system to work with, as for kernel related stuff I'm currently working on gettng the latest arm kernel driver's uapi working with panfrost so that maybe we can get an interim winsys and also to make it easier for people to actually try out panfrost https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lyudess/panfrost-mesa/

22:08 <Lyude> erm-https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lyudess/panfrost-mesa/tree/wip/mali-uapi-update

22:08 <Lyude> is what I meant to link

22:09 <Lyude> i'll be continuing work on it tommorrow since everyone's going to be busy dealing with the inevitable unslaught of turkeys

22:09 <Lyude> *onslaught

22:09 <NeuroScr> well I have an H6 w/a Matli T720

22:09 <NeuroScr> I’ve done opengl from gamdev experience

22:10 <NeuroScr> but the components of the linux x windows system is a bit new to me

22:10 <Lyude> that works! and tbh, most of it is going to be mesa related and not X

22:10 <NeuroScr> yea I was working on getting panfrost mesa built last night

22:10 <Lyude> although our current hack/'winsys' uses it

22:10 <Lyude> but that's not planned to stay around forever

22:10 <NeuroScr> also haven’t had to recompile the kernel in like 20 years :)

22:11 <Lyude> NeuroScr: hehe

22:11 <NeuroScr> but I’m sure it’s like riding a bike :)

22:11 <Lyude> you probably can get away without recompiling the whole kernel-you just need to be able to get mali_kbase + whatever platform shim code your board will need

22:11 <NeuroScr> yea DKMs are nice

22:11 <Lyude> since mali_kbase is arm's out of tree kernel driver

22:11 <Lyude> NeuroScr: 'nice' is one way to put it

22:12 <Lyude> oh-wait, I did lie a little bit

22:12 <Lyude> you will also probably need to make sure the dts for your board has what's needed for the mali gpu as well

22:12 <HdkR> dts missing things is annoying :|

22:12 <Lyude> I think you can get away with not needing to recompile the whole kernel for that though, so long as you can at least get the source of the kernel so you can recompile the ts files

22:12 <Lyude> HdkR: yeah...

22:13 <Lyude> but i mean, if android's not missing it it's probably not terribly difficult to figure out where to grab it from

22:13 <Lyude> HdkR: speaking of which-I need to write mali_kbase gpu resetting code for the vim2

22:13 <Lyude> which will be interesting

22:13 <Lyude> (otherwise getting panfrost working better on this board will be reboot hell)

22:15 <HdkR> Oof, mali_kbase doesn't have working resetting code?

22:15 <Lyude> HdkR: I mean it does; but it looks like there's extra platform-specific bits we will need

22:15 <HdkR> Interesting

22:16 <NeuroScr> I imagine using a 4.x kernel is what I want, something like armbian?

22:17 <Lyude> NeuroScr: whatever distro you want as long as it's a mainline kernel, I'm using fedora on my vim2

22:17 <NeuroScr> haven’t heard of the VIM2 before

22:18 <Lyude> NeuroScr: neither had I! it's a little amlogic based SoC that runs quite nicely with a mainline kernel, it's got a midgard T820 + octocore cpu

22:18 <NeuroScr> yea I got the website open

22:18 <Lyude> khadas sent me one when they heard about panfrost so it's my main midgard dev board right now

22:18 <NeuroScr> might have to add to my buy list

22:18 <Lyude> (thanks khadas <3)

22:18 <NeuroScr> also reading up on uapi rn

22:19 <Lyude> NeuroScr: yeah, there's still quite a bit of work to do there. right now it's at the point where it compiles (and it should do so with no fuss whatsoever, otherwise let me know) and runs, but the shader job just dies on my board

22:20 <Lyude> and because of the lack of gpu reset code I haven't figured out why yet (I can, but it's probably going to be way more efficient if I just fix the gpu reset issue first)

22:20 <NeuroScr> strategy for the win :)