Comment 17 for bug 1948764

@Robie

The image[1] released by Canonical for Xilinx boards is the only one image which pre-loads this package. The users I mentioned are Xilinx board users. Sorry, I didn't use words precisely.

xf86-video-armsoc-endlessm was created for Xilinx boards (zcu102/104/106 and Kria) with mali GPU. Several patches in this package and the mali driver in linux-xilinx-zynqmp are from Xilinx. Some extra gdm3 and xorg config files are also required for enabling mali GPU. It's a customized package for Xilinx boards with mali GPU.

You're right. The package is public. Everyone can download it from Ubuntu-archive. But, if users want to use this package on other boards with mali GPU, they need to take many efforts to integrate and verify it on their boards. Meanwhile, there is already another package called xf86-video-armsoc[2] for other boards with mali GPU. And, this package (1.4.1-0ubuntu6~20.04) was released to focal on 06/17 2021. It seems to me that it has very low risk to backport 1.4.1-0ubuntu8 to focal.

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[1] https://ubuntu.com/download/xilinx
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xf86-video-armsoc