bmdhacks/malisx2 v0.5.0

malisx2 0.5.0

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Vulkan driver for Arm Mali GPUs, for Android and for ARM Linux. On Android it is loaded by emulators that support custom GPU drivers: ARMSX2 (PlayStation 2), Dolphin (GameCube and Wii), hakuX (Xbox) and Vita3K-Plus (PlayStation Vita). On ARM Linux it is for ARMSX2.

More Mali GPUs are supported, and there is now a Linux package.

• Mali-G31, G51, G52, G76
• Mali-G57, G68, G77, G78, G78AE
• Mali-G310, G510, G610, G710
• Mali-G615, G715

Install on Android: in the emulator's custom GPU driver setting, install from file and pick malisx2-0.5.0-9632d02e2f.zip.

Install on ARM Linux: unpack malisx2-0.5.0-aarch64.tar.gz. It makes a malisx2/0.5.0/ folder. Install it from ARMSX2's driver-pack list, or start the emulator with malisx2/0.5.0/run-with-malisx2.sh -- <command>. malisx2/0.5.0/run-with-malisx2.sh --check shows which GPU and driver it finds. It needs glibc 2.34 or newer, libdrm and libgbm.

What's new since 0.4.1

• New GPUs: the Mali-G31, G51, G310, G510, G610 and G710. Nothing changes for the GPUs supported before: on the Mali-G615, Mali-G57 and Mali-G52 the pictures are identical to 0.4.1 and the speed is the same.
• ARM Linux package. For Linux boards and handhelds that use Arm's own Mali kernel driver, such as RK3588, RK3566 and RK3562 systems running ROCKNIX or Debian. It is not for systems that use the open-source panfrost or panthor drivers.

Good to know

• On Android and on Linux, it needs a system that uses Arm's own Mali kernel driver. A board running only the open-source Linux Panthor driver is not covered.
• On the Mali-G51 and G31, a few advanced shader features are not available (indexing a list of textures with a different value for each pixel, and image gathers with non-constant offsets). A shader that needs one fails to build there instead of drawing wrongly.
• The version number is part of the driver's driverInfo, so ARMSX2 throws away and rebuilds its pipeline cache once after this update. The first moments of the first game may be slower than usual.
• MSAA is not implemented. An app that assumes 4x multisampling exists may not start.
• Reporting a problem: on Android, take a bug report or a logcat right after it happens; on Linux, keep the terminal output. In both cases keep the emulator's own log.

Contributors

• @bmdhacks
• @Matheus290: the Mali-G610 and G710 groundwork, and the fix for Arm's window-system layer on Linux

Build

For support:

• malisx2 0.5.0, commit 9632d02
• Mesa: branch malisx2 of bmdhacks/armsx2-turnip, commit 45ff8fac44d9132118d0dddd2ff49f5d827533fb
• malisx2-0.5.0-9632d02e2f.zip sha256 71c1e3dc68ef1396d469f245019d42ab73980e48034095453b7be776195c3641; Android libvulkan_malisx2.so sha256 b80af8f6ed1d88a1e19d0538564e90de8f7e46f4e32f8daec7cb7a772e292721
• malisx2-0.5.0-aarch64.tar.gz sha256 7e31c5fd431407ccd6d4b1b98206aa5d1455d26befb08b4f1f3a1c1379526a27; Linux libvulkan_malisx2.so sha256 956622d47dbeaf727148b1a361532f239616b05dcece7f3ababb0e5fb1697f4a