BCMV Driver Begins Development: Vulkan Driver For Broadcom VC5

[phoronix]

Phoronix: BCMV Driver Begins Development: Vulkan Driver For Broadcom VC5

Broadcom developer Eric Anholt who has long been working on the VC4 open-source graphics driver stack most well known for being used by the Raspberry Pi has begun working on a new driver stack, VC5, for a next-generation of Broadcom graphics hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BCMV-VC5-Vulkan-Driver

[tildearrow]

Typos:

we know it will feature more up-to-date OpenGL capabilties and

driver called "BCMW" and it

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[Michael]

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Whoops, thanks, was still proofreading it after posting.

[kmare]

I would definitely love to see this chip being used by the next RPI.

[bemerk]

I think they should wait until the av1 codec is final and use a suitable gpu that decodes av1 in hardware.