On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 8:11 AM Graeme Gregory <graeme.greg...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 14:03, Tom Gall <tom.g...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > Hi Wookey, > > > > This was something bouncing around in the Graphics Working Group back > > in the day. Alexandros as I recall was the key dev. As far as a shim > > goes given the effort that would have been involved and the lack of > > interest, it wasn't worked on. > > > > For ARM64 and QT would a move to GLES be a "good thing?" Yes. > > > > When it comes to graphics drivers today for arm hardware GLES is > > pretty universal. GLES is a standard, there is compliance through > > *Shouts* ThunderX2 Workstation very loudly at this point, following by > Linaro Developer Box, Macchiato bin..... > > Linaro is more than Android!
Sorry if this wasn't clear I wasn't just talking about Android. You're right that when it comes to desktop graphics the nVidias and Radeons, GL will be there, as will Vulkan. > > Going forward the industry has been picking up Vulkan. Vulkan however > > is not universal. Vulkan has hardware requirements which for whole > > generations of graphics hardware (like Mali 4xx) are not able to > > support. > > > > As Vulkan is becoming more central to Android's Graphics strategy, it > > probably would be wise for the QT types to keep an eye on that. > > > And yes Vulkan is the future if you are not DirectX and will work on > the above machines quite fine too! > > Graeme Is anyone working on open vulkan drivers for nVidia/Radeon that supports arm64? -- Regards, Tom Director, Linaro Consumer Group, Multimedia Working Group Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs irc: tgall_foo | skype : tom_gall "Where's the kaboom!? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!" Marvin Martian _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
