Hello everybody

This time I want to post some information and questions about binary blobs situation on Exynos5 devices. It means Samsung Chromebook and Andale Board (I do not have data about other Exynos5 powered devices).

Chromebook ships with Chromium OS and under it has working OpenGL ES and OpenMAX based video acceleration. I was able to play 1080p YouTube videos both on internal and external screen without any slowdown.

But under normal GNU/Linux systems (Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu) there is none of it...

We got OpenGL ES running by copying libmali and all symlinks pointing to it (lib{EGL,GLES} etc) and taking care of /dev/mali* permissions. But we can not make packages with it for our distibutions because of lack of any license for it. Normal "this is proprietary binary, do not hack it etc but you can distribute it freely" kind of license will be enough.

Android binaries for OpenGL ES are available for Andale Board. GNU/Linux ones can be extracted from Chromebook recovery image (363MB download extracting to ~1GB file). But lack of license anyway.

I know that we have ARM Ltd. people here, same with Samsung - maybe someone can tell us what is going on in this area?

Other thing is video acceleration. I do not know is there a source for it available or not. This is area where I do not have knowledge needed to get it running. All I know is that Exynos5 itself is able to play 480p DivX encoded movie - did not yet tried 720p or 1080p ones but do not think it will make it on it own.