On 2018-11-23 23:10 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El viernes, 23 de noviembre de 2018 12:26:49 -03 Wookey escribió: > > > > My main desktop is now an arm64 machine with an nvidia PCI graphics > > card. These are fairly new (and currently expensive), but I have > > reason to believe there is more of this sort of thing coming, and > > laptop-format machines. > > Well, that's at very least an interesting data point. So yes, they exist, but > they are new and expensive. Can I assume that this means most of our arm64 > users do not yet get to them? Not yet, no although I think you can just buy one (Gigabyte ThunderXstation) now. But Machiato-bin exists with working PCI and you can buy one (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Marvell/MACCHIATOBin), and nvidia-based hardware is available and supports GL (Jetson TX1) (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/NVIDIA/Jetson-TX1). There is more hardware coming which will support GL, so it is definately not as simple as 'available hardware is all GLES'. (Perhaps someone has made a list in this long thread). > > I recall Linaro doing some work on this back > > when it started (to make it easier to switch between GL and > > GLES). Possibly that work never actually got done, just talked out. > > It would really help, indeed. OK. It seems that this project was started, but not completed due to a lack of interest at the time (2012) (people just started using GLES on dev boards/phones). It's here: https://code.launchpad.net/glproxy And here is the spec: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Graphics/Specs/1105/GLProxy Perhaps it is worth resurrecting this project if it would let us acheive the nirvana of runtime selection between GL and GLES, thus making everyone happy. Jammy Zhou <jammy.zhou@linaro.org> cc:ed can say how much was/wasn't done. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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