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  • Panfrost Gallium3D Flips On AFBC For Bifrost GPUs

    Phoronix: Panfrost Gallium3D Flips On AFBC For Bifrost GPUs

    Adding to the long list of changes for Mesa 21.0 is the Panfrost Gallium3D driver that provides open-source OpenGL for Arm Mali graphics hardware now supporting Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC) for Bifrost GPUs...

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    This is a well known feature that we are waiting forever, sad that midgard doesn't get it, because majority of hardware in the wild have midgard gpu's..

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    • #3
      Originally posted by tuxd3v View Post
      This is a well known feature that we are waiting forever, sad that midgard doesn't get it, because majority of hardware in the wild have midgard gpu's..
      AFBC has been enabled for supported Midgard GPUs (t760 and above) for months…

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        Is this lossy lossless or lossless lossless?

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          Originally posted by microcode View Post
          Is this lossy lossless or lossless lossless?
          AFBC is usually lossless (and the GPU encoder is, as long as it is configured correctly), but an encoder could be easily modified to be lossy for potential gains in compression ratio.

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