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Not for any of the GPUs. If all you want is a terminal, you can pretty much buy anything..

You can run Gnome just fine, hardware accelerated video decoding/encoding works, HDMI with a few features is mainline, the only thing left is the Mali GPU, which is a fairly simple GPU as far as that kind of hardware goes, as compared to AMD or Nvidia GPUs.

On that note, there has been a fair bit of activity on Lima as of late, which is a big change from a few years ago: https://github.com/yuq/linux-lima/tree/lima-4.16-rc5/drivers...

Isn't Lima for 200 and 400 series. Tinkerboard needs has a 700 which already has kernel support but will need Panfrost for open source userspace.

Lima is for 200 and 400 series, which were what we were discussing earlier in this thread.

how mature is Panfrost? I have a board with Mali T720 (Allwinner H6) and I cannot get any GPU support currently.

Does libhybris work with Allwinner SBCs?

i.e. using ARM's proprietary driver for Mali from Android.

(FOSS drivers might be in development but pragmatically I'd choose something that works)

Not useable yet. It has shaders and can draw triangles but no textures or FBOs.

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