hi!
There is no Qualcomm ‘user space’ blob for the OpenGL/GLes, however we are still using the GPU firmware blob, which is loaded by the DRM driver into the GPU, using kernel firmware loading mechanism.
Then the kernel and the user space drivers (mesa/freedreno) are indeed open source and work really well.
Similarly for Wifi and BT, we are using the firmware blob from Qualcomm, which are loaded onto the appropriate co-processor, but the kernel and user space stack are open source. Wlan and BT work fine as well.
For now, we only tracked master, it is possible to reuse what was done to bring the relevant BSP on top of a stable release , but we haven’t done that. I would be interested to hear from you if you get it to work.
Most of our AOSP efforts , right now, are done on DB820c, and we have daily builds for that. A lot of the platform enablement that we do for 820c apply to 410c as well, it’s the same kernel, same graphics stack, … so you should be able to leverage that. We might come back to 410c/AOSP at some point, but not in the near term.
The “official” release that was done by Qualcomm, even if it is “official” has no path forward. it is no longer maintained, and there won’t be any update at all. On the other hand the AOSP efforts are based on top of a maintained kernel , which will be eventually upgraded to next Linux LTS… So it certainly depends on your definition of ‘safe’…
