Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit by jchw on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:06AM (#20420815)

I hope we can get true AArch64 support as well, for many different reasons. One is that Dolphin-emu has an AArch64 JIT but not a 32 bit ARM one. While it’s probably not terribly hard to get the Pi4 booting to 64 bit, which is actually probably good enough if you’re just interested in virtualization, I have no idea how to get the VideoCore 6 drivers in 64 bit and if I had to guess, I’d guess shit out of luck for now.

(I am not sure Dolphin-emu would run with considerable performance, but damn if I’m not curious.)

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Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit by floatboth on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:23AM (#20420944)

VC4 works great in 64-bit, I've had WebGL running on some browser under Weston on ArchLinuxARM on a Pi3. I would expect V3D (VideoCore 5/6) to work out of the box on 64-bit too. Mesa very rarely introduces any unportable code – e.g. RadeonSI pretty much just works on FreeBSD/aarch64 :)

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Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit by jchw on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:28AM (#20420985)

Wait - is the VC4/V3D driver open source? I feel like I missed that bit.

So basically, I should just cross compile RPi Linux and Mesa and it should work?

To be honest, I have been confused about the VideoCore driver situation from day 1, but I thought it was a blob.

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Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit by Narishma on Friday July 12, 2019 @11:06AM (#20421228)

VC4 and V3D are open source Mesa drivers for VideoCore 4 and VideoCore 5/6 respectively. I don't remember what the proprietary driver is called.

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