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[sandy8925]

I wonder if Sony is fiiiinally going to use some standard API like Vulkan for their PlayStation consoles? That would be great, especially since consoles...

[sandy8925]

Yeah, but the people managing the store, and the people selling the DRM-free content, must make their peace with the fact that the content can and will...

[sandy8925]

Stare at the kernel code, and see if you can figure out something?

How are you rendering with the external GPU? PRIME?...

[sandy8925]

And there will always be people who'll try to get around those restrictions. Like I said, DRM and other problematic restrictions are the inevitable conclusion...

[sandy8925]

Right, but that's just the kernel driver. What about the Mesa/Gallium3D driver, where are they using that?...

[sandy8925]

Is there a source for where they're using these open source GPU drivers? It would be pretty damn good if they used it for Android and/or ChromeOS dev...

[sandy8925]

It will happen for sure. It's just a question of how many do it....

[sandy8925]

True, given how old the gcc codebase is, there are a lot of commits, branches etc. and cleanly copying over the history will be quite tough....

[sandy8925]

Eh, that's no excuse. Any company that launches hardware or a product of some sort, invests money initially with the promise of big returns. They're not...

[sandy8925]

UVD is implemented and working. I've tested mpv with AMD VAAPI and the AMDGPU driver, seems to work fine. Need to change VLC to use vaExportSurfaceHandle...

[sandy8925]

That's....... literally the same thing.

I get they're calling it member because of C, but the name is really unfortunate. Plus, it seems...

[sandy8925]

Have you heard of our lord and saviour OpenCL? Or Vulkan Compute?...

[sandy8925]

Lol, good luck. AMDs support is much worse....

[sandy8925]

R9 390 only supports H.264 decode and encode. RX 570 probably supports H.265 decode and encode as well. That plus the fact that it's a newer generation...

[sandy8925]

Um that's not true. Bridgman himself has previously said that CIK support was enabled by default in their separate kernel branch, the one they recommended...

[sandy8925]

Ooh, nice! Definitely makes POWER systems more practical and useful.

I wonder if the ARM64 improvements for the driver, are for Samsung ...

[sandy8925]

Uh no, they need to include components that work regardless of Android version, and across multiple devices. They also don't know what kind of weird custom...

[sandy8925]

??? It depends on how you specify your dependencies.

The Gradle build system is also quite deterministic, especially if you use the Gradle...

[sandy8925]

It's only supported on Android 7.0+ - Google Play itself supports a minimum of Android 4.0, and most app developers probably have Lollipop/Kitkat/Jellybean...

[sandy8925]

That part's optional - it's more of a convenience - if you only have a single, simple constructor with a few arguments, you can define it right there...