http://www.broadcom.com/blog/chip-design/android-for-all-bro...
Also, Broadcom is paying someone to write an open driver for the RPi GPU. They are literally the first company to do open GPU drivers for ARM-related GPUs.
Also, Broadcom is paying someone to write an open driver for the RPi GPU. They are literally the first company to do open GPU drivers for ARM-related GPUs.
No, the Raspberry Pi has a Broadcom GPU (VideoCore IV). ARM-related GPUs would be the Mali line, of which there is already an open-source effort (lima).
So Broadcom is paying someone to write an open driver for their own GPU. This doesn't benefit anyone else in the ARM ecosystem in the slightest. It's a Broadcom move for Broadcom's benefit alone.
I would not be so cynical. It'd be quite unlikely that properly upstreamed Mesa and/or kernel code wouldn't lead to any idea sharing or refactoring/optimization of the common code used by all drivers.