Broadcom VC4 Gallium3D Driver Soon To Merge Into Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Broadcom VC4 Gallium3D Driver Soon To Merge Into Mesa

The Broadcom VC4 Gallium3D driver, which provides the open-source user-space component to an OpenGL driver for the Raspberry Pi, will soon likely be added to mainline Mesa...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc1Njg

[Nille]

Does this Driver include the Video Decoder?

[daniels]

Does this Driver include the Video Decoder?

no - the video decoder is a separate unit which does not currently have an open driver.

[Imroy]

...aaaaand it's in, as of three hours ago. I don't have a RPi and am still hesitant to buy a Broadcom-based device, but this is a good step forward. Now if only more interesting ARM boards (with decent CPUs and I/O) had similar open graphics support.