07:58 <SpieringsAE> I'm working with an IM8MP based system and want to try to get archlinuxarm to run on it. The only vivante stuff in there is still for the imx6. Am I correct in thinking that the userspace part of the driver is still very much proprietary?

08:00 <SpieringsAE> and this proprietary blob should be downloadable from https://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/NMG/MAD/YOCTO/imx-gpu-viv-#.bin?

08:01 <SpieringsAE> is there some way to check what the latest version is? because when I go to that link without the file extension it just gives me an error "page not found"

08:03 <austriancoder> SpieringsAE: this channel is about the open source etnaviv stack not the closed source one. So use a recent kernel and a recent mesa and you should have something working.

08:03 <SpieringsAE> ah cool there already is something in mesa?

08:04 <SpieringsAE> that is very good to hear

08:04 <austriancoder> SpieringsAE: for some years now

08:04 <SpieringsAE> I'm pretty new to this chip still so I must have missed that, thanks anyway I will look into it!

08:04 <austriancoder> On a recent distribution it should work out of the box

08:05 <SpieringsAE> I think archlinuxarm should qualify as a recent distribution

11:45 <SpieringsAE> Okay I'm back with one more question because I still see quite a bunch missing in the mainline kernel, I assume it is still required to run the linux-imx kernel? Stuff like galcore etc

12:13 <austriancoder> No.. mainline kernel only

12:14 <austriancoder> SpieringsAE: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv

12:56 <SpieringsAE> isn't the galcore thing something you need ontop of that? I'm probably misunderstanding what components this all is comprised from

12:58 <austriancoder> galcore kernel driver is only used for the closed source usersapce driver.

13:01 <austriancoder> the etnaviv stack consists of the etnaviv kernel driver and mesa in the usersapce

13:03 <SpieringsAE> Okay nice thank you very much for explaining!