Android / Linux Vulkan User Space Drivers

[SBCJunkie]

ARM have released Vulkan GPU drivers for Linux/Android https://developer.arm.com/products/softw...user-space

Hopefully this helps with anyone's project that desperately needs decent GPU drivers

You are welcome

[Craz_tyle]

That is new!!

But I dont think it would work well.

Because I saw this post from Khronos, Ref: https://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/a...ali-vulkan.
That post said, "At Linaro Connect 17 this past week in Budapest, Vulkan was talked about at the ARM's Mali graphics drivers session, as well as the lack of current open-source drivers due to lack of customer demand."

Linaro Connect 17 was this past week in Budapest. One of the interesting sessions was with regard to ARM's Mali graphics drivers where Vulkan was talked about as well as the lack of current open-source drivers due to lack of customer demand. 

The slide deck from the presentation isn't yet available, but for those interested, embedded below is a video recording of the session talking about ARM Mali Linux graphics drivers and the Q&A period where there was inquiries about the lack of open drivers, etc. While they don't have an open driver stack at this time, at least their Mali Vulkan SDK is open. 

As I understand, it means ARM release the lower-end driver for hardware level? But no software API driver has been improved, so still, no one can use it?
Maybe I have wrong about this. please, kindly discuss.

[nex86]

The GPU does support Vulkan.
Just the software doesn't.
The drivers in the latest Android image for the Tinkerboard are outdated.