Qualcomm To Offer GPU Driver Updates On Google Play Store For Some Snapdragon Chips

'At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii this week, Qualcomm unveiled
the new Snapdragon 865 Mobile Platform, which enable next year's
flagship 5G Android phones with more performance, a stronger
Tensor-based AI processor and a very interesting new forthcoming
feature not yet offered for any smartphone platform to date. The
company announced that it will eventually start delivering driver
updates for its Adreno GPU engines on board the Snapdragon 865 as
downloadable packages via the Google Play Store. This is big news for
smartphones, as GPU drivers are rarely updated out of band, if ever,
and typically have to wait for the next major Android release. And
even then, many OEMs don't bother putting in the effort to ensure that
mobile GPUs are running the most current graphics drivers from
Qualcomm. The process, which would have to be pre-qualified by major
OEMs as well, will be akin to what the PC GPU 3D graphics driver
ecosystem has been benefiting from for a long time, for maximum
performance and compatibility. Unfortunately, at least currently, GPU
driver update support is limited to only the Adreno 650 core on board
the new Snapdragon 865, which currently supports updating drivers in
this fashion. Here's hoping this program is met with success and
Qualcomm will begin to enable the feature for legacy and new midrange
Snapdragon platforms as well.'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/12/06/2132212

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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