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Qualcomm Releases Open-Source 2D/3D Kernel Driver

By Michael Larabel

“If you happen to have Google’s Nexus One or other phones based
upon Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor, there is great news today.
Qualcomm has just released an open-source 2D/3D kernel driver for
their OpenGL ES graphics processor. This Qualcomm kernel driver
provides support for interrupts, command streams, context
switching, memory management, etc. Qualcomm is looking to push this
code into the mainline Linux kernel ASAP.

“For right now this Snapdragon graphics driver can be found in
this Git tree based upon the Android Linux 2.6.32 kernel.”

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