Update the PowerVR GE8300 drivers on A133P devices

I am porting Half-Life 2 and other games that run on the same engine and I got a bug that prevents me from shutting down the device, I believe the GPU driver gets stuck and is not able to recover. Updating the drivers seem to have solved it.

Steps:

  • Download the release from this: GitHub - knulli-cfw/ge8300-drivers · GitHub
  • Extract the glibc folder somewhere in your computer
  • With your device running muOS, enable SSH and SFTP
  • Copy the .so files (exclude the links) and the firmware folder from the glibc/lib64 folder over to /usr/lib of your device via SFTP
  • Using ssh make sure the files have the correct permission with " chmod 755 /usr/lib/.so "
  • Do the same with the firmware folder " chmod 755 /usr/lib/firmware/ "
  • Copy the two binaries on the glibc/bin folder over to /usr/bin
  • Make sure you have the correct permissions on them as well " chmod 755 /usr/bin/* "
  • Ensure the changes are written to the disk with the command " sync "
  • Reboot the device

These drivers seem more stable than the ones that come with the current release of muOS and it doesn’t lock the GPU.

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Thank you, we will investigate this further. :slight_smile:

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