Alyssa Rosenzweig, Software engineer, Collabora
With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run Wayland compositors with zero-copy graphics, including GNOME 3. It can run every scene in glmark2-es2, and 3D games like Neverball can be played. In addition, it can support hardware-accelerated video players mpv and Kodi.
Since we began work on Bifrost, fellow Collaboran Tomeu Vizoso and I have progressed from stubbing out the new compiler and command stream in March to running real programs by May. Driven by a reverse-engineering effort in tandem with the free software community, we’re confident that against proprietary blobs and downstream hacks, open source software will prevail.