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airlied.livejournal.com is a personal blog at airlied.livejournal.com about systems and hardware. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Raspberry Pi drivers are Not useful”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Airlie's posts on open-source GPU drivers, citing them on the Raspberry Pi/Broadcom closed-source userspace shim, Vulkan driver history (RADV, AMDVLK), and an Ubuntu font upstream issue.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Raspberry Pi drivers are Not useful4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-10-24
- On open source development and disagreements2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-01
What Hacker News says?
Valve is contributing quite a bit, with their ACO compiler for instance, but the RADV driver did not in fact originate with them. We owe a great deal to David Airlie for that. He wrote a complete vulkan driver years before AMD released the source code for AMDVLK. Valve started contributing a few years in, IIRC. To AMD's credit, they did help with documentation, questions, and much of the work was built on top of wha…
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on “Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings”Submitted Embedded GPU: what are they hiding? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionDepends on what you mean by "proper" drivers. The GPU drivers for the Raspberry Pi, like the drivers for most other development boards, consist of an open-source shim and a closed-source userspace blob [1]. HD decoding on these boards is performed using a digital signal processor (DSP) integrated into the SOC, the CPU (even with GPU support) is too slow for 1080P h264 Content. This is not specific to Android, for ex…
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on “$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB”Submitted Raspberry Pi drivers are Not useful as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYou aren't the only person to think this: http://airlied.livejournal.com/76383.html "really what they've released is totally useless to anyone who uses or develops this stuff."
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on “Open Source ARM userland”Submitted On open source development and disagreements as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe nut graph from arlied's post[1] (linked to in phoronix article): "So really Rasberry Pi and Broadcom - get a big FAIL for even bothering to make a press release for this, if they'd just stuck the code out there and gone on with things it would have been fine, nobody would have been any happier, but some idiot thought this crappy shim layer deserved a press release, pointless. (and really phoronix, you suck even…
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on “Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim”Submitted Why publishing code is STEP ZERO as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Canonical isn't about making changes, they're about driving adoption." Is that not what I just said? "and they work hard with upstream devs to get usability problems addressed." What, like this? http://airlied.livejournal.com/72817.html
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on “Introducing the Ubuntu Font Family to the web”Submitted Introducing Virgil - 3D virtual GPU for qemu as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airlied: on open source development and disagreements as a story · 2 points
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