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Nvidia Tegra 2
NVIDIA T20 chip
NVIDIA T20 chip
Manufacturer Nvidia
Name Tegra 2
Architecture armv7
CPU 2x 1.0/1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9
GPU Nvidia ULP Geforce
Year 2010
Process 40nm
Mainline yes
Components
CPU
Works
UART
Works
Storage
Works
USB
Works
Display
Works
GPU
Partial
Pinctrl
Works
I²C
Works
SPI
No data
Audio
Works
Video
Works
Thermal
Works
Camera
Partial
NPU
No data
Suspend
Works
Ethernet
No data
SATA
No data


Graphics

Components (source)

  • Mesa-3D (minimal implementation, not complete enough (GL 1.4) to run XWayland (requires GL 2.1 or GLES2)
  • xf86-video-tegra (2D acceleration for X11, EXA)
  • libvdpau-tegra

Usability

Wayland:

  • Phosh works, but UI is accelerated trough llvmpipe (software rendering), thus is slow.
  • Plasma mobile not tested (please update)

X11:

  • Xfce4 and Mate desktop will run on 2D acceleration.
  • Hildon requires an OpenGL backend.
    • As of cogl 1.22.2 the clutter/cogl backend requires stencil buffers (EGL_STENCIL_SIZE). This not yet implemented in the grate-driver.

Video Decoding

Video Decoder Engine (VDE) was added to mainline kernel v4.16. The grate-driver includes hardware h264 decoding with libvdpau-tegra.

The vdpau driver does not support h264 videos encoded with:

  • weighted prediction
  • CABAC

Sample video that can be decoded with hardware acceleration: https://peach.blender.org/trailer-page/

$ mpv --hwdec=vdpau trailer_720p.mov
Using hardware decoding (vdpau).
VO: [vdpau] 1280x720 vdpau[yuv420p]

Participate development

Develop

Mesa3D Gallium driver

https://github.com/grate-driver/mesa

  • Host1x ABI rework (required before mesa implemenetation): (G. docs)
  • migrate from TGSI to NIR
  • establishing demos that work, where can be seen regression

Devices with a Nvidia Tegra 2 Chipset

Device Mainline
Acer Iconia Tab A500 Y
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Y
Nvidia Tegra ARMv7 Y
Samsung Captivate Glide P
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 P

Devices not booting yet

Device Mainline
Acer Iconia Tab A200 P
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet
Motorola Droid X2
Sony Tablet S

See also