Even better news for all owners of Android smartphone made by Qualcomm Adreno GPU: after the release, tightly closed source, optimized drivers for Ice Cream Sandwich is CPU-ARMv6 that ARMv7 , required the manufacturer to great acclaim from users of devices based on these architectures, is now the turn of a new project, this time completely open-source, Freedreno . As can easily be inferred from the name, it is a driver for GPU Adreno completely free.
At present the majority of the Snapdragon-based devices using Android or Windows Phone: availability of a good open source drivers would however also possible to install different operating systems based on Linux, in addition to allowing you to update the phones in a more simple and without the constraints imposed by the availability of drivers created by the manufacturer, to ensure for many devices currently on the market a support unofficial much higher than they would otherwise have on the record.
The project started with less than a week and is still in its infancy, yet it is already present 2D graphics acceleration support .
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