(05-02-2018, 11:57 AM)Nintonito Wrote: Ah, you work for Imagination do you not? I guess you would have some insider knowledge on how that interface works. I guess it’s fruitless to rely on treble. Still, Dave Burke did say it was their intention to make that happen. Maybe one day. You would know better than a mere observer.
Not anymore, but only left a few months ago so probably not too out of date.
It's more that "treble" and "updateable GPU drivers" are separate, barely related things. There's no real hard requirement on one from the other. At least powervr's drivers have been "updateable" in system for some time, just no customers put the effort in to out together the infrastructure to make it work. But that was something of an implementation detail, and depends on design decisions by the vendors driver team, not Google as such.
I believe Google are tweaking some parts of Android to make this a lower bar, and *strongly* recommend driver designs allowing that, but it's still no guarantee.