Hello,
I was wondering if it's possible to support the mainline kernel with the Mali kernel drivers for the Rockchip RK3288 SoC, used for example in Asus Chromebook Flip C100P and C201P. Currently, the generic mainline kernel provided in the repositories "linux-armv7" does not include the specific Mali Midgard drivers required to use the Mali user-space drivers and thus enable things like graphics acceleration, Wayland support, etc. For your reference, I believe Rockchip itself maintains a repository for the mainline kernel including the Mali drivers here: https://github.com/rockchip-linux/kernel
Another repository that does the same is RockMyy: https://github.com/Miouyouyou/RockMyy and this is mainly for those development boards which use this SoC, like the Tinkerboard and Firefly. Given all this, can we have a kernel package that has the latest drivers as on this repository which would be a huge help for people using the Chromebooks mentioned above since anything graphics related runs very poorly on them now? I realize it won't change much, but at least it would help in video acceleration, Wayland and whatever software that can support GLES.
Also worth noting is that the user-space driver "veyron-libgl" in the repos here is very old (version r5p0) while what's included in RockMyy is version r19p0. I believe the newer drivers have much better support for X11 and Wayland.