Mali Driver Development Kit

The Mali Driver Development Kits (DDK) work alongside GPU products belonging to the Valhall and Bifrost architecture families of GPUs. Mali DDKs support the most common graphics and compute APIs under Linux and Android operating systems. The DDK products can be used on their own, or combined together to provide support for multiple APIs. Based on the capabilities of the GPU, the DDKs enable the APIs listed below.

Specifications

Features Value Description
 Supported GPUs G77, G76, G72, G71, G57, G52, G51, G31 Valhall and Bifrost GPUs
 API support
  • OpenGL® ES 1.1, 2.0, 3.2
  • Vulkan® 1.1
  • OpenCL™ 1.1, 2.0 Full profile
  • Renderscript (Android only)
 Full support for next-generation 2D and 3D graphics and compute APIs
 CPU architecture  32 bit or 64 bit ArmV8 Support for current CPU architectures
 Operative systems and windowing systems
  • Linux: supported windowing systems for EGL™ on Linux: fbdev, gbm, Wayland
  • Android: support for EGL™ and Vulkan®
 Support for most widely used operating systems and windowing systems
  • EGL and the EGL logo are trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc.
  • OpenCL and the OpenCL logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. used by permission by Khronos. Complete license details are available on the Apple website.
  • OpenGL® and the oval logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the United States and/or other countries worldwide.
  • Vulkan and the Vulkan logo are registered trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc.

 

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