"From a technical point of view, ARM's Mali GPU is the perfect candidate for a reverse engineering project. The hardware is well structured and beautifully simple. The driver stack is equally structured and highly logical. The kernel interface is kept simple and sane. Compared to some of its competitors, the Mali is a thing of beauty. It gives this driver developer the same buzz that the original ATI R500 display engine did when implementing the radeonHD driver."
Luc Verhaegen does applaud the ARM Mali GPU design as being "clean" since their driver doesn't require any micro-code to be loaded manually nor does it do any register banging from user-space. This does help in the reverse-engineering process.
[^] # Re: 3D
Posté par antistress (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Entretien avec Martin Peres, développeur Nouveau. Évalué à 0. Dernière modification le 26 octobre 2012 à 01:44.
D'après ce qu'on peut lire les GPU NVidia sont inutilement complexes (sans doute comme les CPUs x86, obligés de se coltiner l'antériorité)
comparer :
https://plus.google.com/108010086967233476835/posts/iy21rLJfeCk
et :
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arm_mali_reverse&num=2