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Binary Bifrost Release Notes r16p0-01rel0 - Rev. date 2019-03-01

r16p0-01rel0 Mali driver for HiKey960 supporting Linux

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Abstract

This release package contains the r16p0-01rel0 release of the Arm Mali Bifrost G71 GPU user-space driver for HiKey960 for Linux distribution on HiKey960 development platform with Wayland and DRM compositor backend.

The driver implements the following APIs:

OpenGL ES 3.2,
Vulkan 1.0 (this release does not provide a windowing system integration for the contained Vulkan driver),
OpenCL 2.0.

Reference setup

HiKey960 device documentation: https://www.96boards.org/documentation/consumer/hikey/hikey960/
Debian 9 Stretch with Weston 1.12 compositor
4.14 Android Common Kernel for HiKey 960 available at: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/hikey-linaro/+/android-hikey-linaro-4.14,
git hash - 9be4570683b87b842ed89f85f59725c776eec56e
Mali kernel driver for Bifrost
Link - https://developer.arm.com/products/software/mali-drivers/bifrost-kernel
Product - BX301A01B-SW-99002-r16p0-01rel0.tgz
Required config options in hikey960_defconfig:
- CONFIG_FHANDLE,
- CONFIG_DEVPORT,
- CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION,
- CONFIG_DEVTMPFS,
- CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT,
- CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE.

Application

This release package contains the Mali Bifrost GPU drivers for use with Linux on the HiKey960 board. The drivers support Wayland protocol targeting DRM as a backend for the compositor.

Package structure

|-- END_USER_LICENCE_AGREEMENT.txt
|-- HiKey960_Linux_Release_Notes.html
`-- wayland-drm
    |-- lib
    |   |-- libEGL.so -> libEGL.so.1
    |   |-- libEGL.so.1 -> libEGL.so.1.4.0
    |   |-- libEGL.so.1.4.0
    |   |-- libGLESv1_CM.so -> libGLESv1_CM.so.1
    |   |-- libGLESv1_CM.so.1 -> libGLESv1_CM.so.1.1.0
    |   |-- libGLESv1_CM.so.1.1.0
    |   |-- libGLESv2.so -> libGLESv2.so.2
    |   |-- libGLESv2.so.2 -> libGLESv2.so.2.1.0
    |   |-- libGLESv2.so.2.1.0
    |   |-- libOpenCL.so -> libOpenCL.so.2
    |   |-- libOpenCL.so.2 -> libOpenCL.so.2.1.0
    |   |-- libOpenCL.so.2.1.0
    |   |-- libgbm.so -> libgbm.so.1
    |   |-- libgbm.so.1 -> libgbm.so.1.0.0
    |   |-- libgbm.so.1.0.0
    |   |-- libmali.so -> libmali.so.0
    |   |-- libmali.so.0 -> libmali.so.0.16.0
    |   |-- libmali.so.0.16.0
    |   |-- libwayland-egl.so -> libwayland-egl.so.1
    |   |-- libwayland-egl.so.1 -> libwayland-egl.so.1.0.0
    |   `-- libwayland-egl.so.1.0.0
    `-- lib64
        |-- libEGL.so -> libEGL.so.1
        |-- libEGL.so.1 -> libEGL.so.1.4.0
        |-- libEGL.so.1.4.0
        |-- libGLESv1_CM.so -> libGLESv1_CM.so.1
        |-- libGLESv1_CM.so.1 -> libGLESv1_CM.so.1.1.0
        |-- libGLESv1_CM.so.1.1.0
        |-- libGLESv2.so -> libGLESv2.so.2
        |-- libGLESv2.so.2 -> libGLESv2.so.2.1.0
        |-- libGLESv2.so.2.1.0
        |-- libOpenCL.so -> libOpenCL.so.2
        |-- libOpenCL.so.2 -> libOpenCL.so.2.1.0
        |-- libOpenCL.so.2.1.0
        |-- libgbm.so -> libgbm.so.1
        |-- libgbm.so.1 -> libgbm.so.1.0.0
        |-- libgbm.so.1.0.0
        |-- libmali.so -> libmali.so.0
        |-- libmali.so.0 -> libmali.so.0.16.0
        |-- libmali.so.0.16.0
        |-- libwayland-egl.so -> libwayland-egl.so.1
        |-- libwayland-egl.so.1 -> libwayland-egl.so.1.0.0
        `-- libwayland-egl.so.1.0.0

Installation

In order to use the Vulkan driver an integration step with a Vulkan ICD Loader is required. When using the Khronos Vulkan ICD Loader, please refer to: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader/blob/master/loader/LoaderAndLayerInterface.md.

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