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@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Oh, BTW this support for this GPU is so bad that it is blacklisted in Firefox for HW decoding. Even in Windows it causes random reboots on decoding video. It's very rare, but it happens.
2d accel shoudn't be this complex, but still the "all these years" argument doesn't hold — if the device isn't popular enough there is no one to fix it.
@iska@mstdn.starnix.network It wasn't easy to even get Windows running on it. Windows 10 Mobile was 32-bit so you coudn't use any drivers from it. It was pure luck that someone found an engineering device similar to this one that had 64-bit Windows, so they could reverse engineer some drivers. Some devices still don't work, like cameras.
It would take crazy amount of work to get the same level of hardware support with Linux.