A Work-In-Progress Vulkan Driver For The Raspberry Pi / VC4

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Work-In-Progress Vulkan Driver For The Raspberry Pi / VC4

While the current generation Raspberry Pi boards with their VideoCore IV graphics processor only supports OpenGL ES 2.0 and is generally quite slow, there is an experimental/work-in-progress Vulkan driver being worked on...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raspberry-Pi-Vulkan-Code-Drop

[boxie]

hey, that could be nifty - if only for a learning project!

[squash]

Accelerating the parts that can be accelerated and shimming the rest in software is a perfectly reasonable approach to this. Sometimes the raw performance is less important than other things like completeness and correctness.

[airlied]

Accelerating the parts that can be accelerated and shimming the rest in software is a perfectly reasonable approach to this. Sometimes the raw performance is less important than other things like completeness and correctness.

You'd be writing software compute shaders I guess, on a slow ARM, correctness is the least of your problem since to prove correctness you'd have to run at least one test in unbounded time.

Dave.