After years of hard work the etnaviv team reached an other very important milestone. The gallium driver and the renderonly library got pushed into mesa’s git repository and will be released with mesa 17.0 - yeah! This does not mean we are done with development at all. There are many interesting topics to work on and some of them like better support for newer IP cores or a reworked GLSL compiler should see the light of day during the next months....
Last Friday I got kmscube successfully running with mesa and the new etnaviv DRM kernel driver. At this time I got it not really pixel perfect and I spend some nights to get it fixed. It turns out that I need a small mesa hack to get the rendering correct. You may ask why did it so long to get it working? Let me explain it to you. The Vivnate GPU is a so called render-only GPU which does not have any kind of scanout logic in it....
Here is the first result of running mesatest_gles on mesa&etna: Following tests are showing good visual results compared to swrast: Hello_Triangle/CH02_HelloTriangle Simple_VertexShader/CH08_SimpleVertexShader CubeVBO/cube_vbo ParticleSystem/CH13_ParticleSystem Viewports/viewports All other are visual corrupted or segfault. So there is still some work done to get all demos up and running.