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Re:Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge by stefan_ on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:50PM (#19109459)
The Raspberry Pis have a VC4 GPU that has a fully upstreamed Linux kernel driver and a fully upstreamed Mesa userland graphics driver.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/dr...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/master/src/gal...

This isn't some toy reverse engineered implementation; the principal author is Eric Anholt who is employed by Broadcom for pretty much building this and other open-source drivers.

If you are still using the closed driver dump, it's because you haven't been paying attention.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge by gjsman-1000 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @06:34PM (#19109781)
The OpenGL driver mostly works, but it has some... issues. There is a reason why the RPi Foundation doesn't enable it by default.

I have used the OpenGL driver before, and it breaks some weird things (e.g. Programs which use the proprietary blob such as Chromium or VLC slow to a crawl, boot splash screens don't work, a few other weird things.)

I still, however, don't get why the RPi Foundation doesn't have the ability to enable the driver in the GUI tool. You have to manually use `raspi-config` in the terminal, which the GUI has replaced in almost everything but this.

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