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TI Developer Publishes Open-Source Qualcomm GPU Driver

 
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A developer working for Texas Instruments has reverse-engineered his competitor’s (Qualcomm) driver and written an open-source Snapdragon driver.

With being tainted by legal documents at Texas Instruments, the developer who is also involved with Linaro, had no other choice but to work on an open source graphics driver for his competitor in his free time.

The open source Qualcomm Snapdragon/Adreno driver is called Freedreno.
 
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