@Nightwulf
You seem to know a lot about GPU driver stuff.
Have you tried the new powervr kernel driver, the one in drm-next scheduled for kernel 6.8?
Along with that the pvr vulkan driver in Mesa 24.0 should support the new kernel driver here. And the firmware here. And I also saw some device info for the BXE-4-32 on one of the imagination developers (frank binns) mesa fork in the dev/devinfo branch. I don’t know if that’s useful.
Do you think we have everything we need to get the GPU working on the new open drivers or is something missing?
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Blush…hehe…no, I do not know a lot of GPU drivers in this generality. I tried out Franks driver some weeks ago but it supported only the AXE variants of the card until then.
But I planned to give it another try with the current versions over next weekend. I’ll report, what the result of that might be.
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@Nightwulf
I have compiled my app for VF2, and it use wxWidgets and OpenGL. On Gnome with Xorg it works with GPU acceleration but on Gnome Wayland I have to use the export GDK_BACKEND=x11 and no more GPU acceleration, software rendering.
I have tried to compile wxWidgets with EGL but it needs EGL 1.5, only 1.4 available on VF2.
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Yes and that sadly won’t change until a usable version of driver + mesa-driver from frank is available.
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