VisionFive2 in 2026: mostly games

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@geocalyx

Gone down the rabbit hole of Firefox acceleration for a little. Looks like a layer of its graphical stack isn’t accelerated. The end output, for some reason, is, so the VF2 reports using the GPU, but the canvas, before display, is calculated by the CPU no matter what I do.

Firefox also does not support WebAssembly on RISC-V which is essential for games in the browser.

@geocalyx

(RANT: this is what sells technology. Not AI. Not surveillance tech. The ability to play Counter Strike and Super Mario.

Exactly! That’s why I have decided to port my game (Bemined) for RISC-V, despite understanding that I will spend a lot of time on this and earn no money from it. Just wanted to do my little part in popularizing the platform.