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Re: Raspberry Pi



In Raspbian Buster on my Pi 3B

es2gears
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
EGL_VERSION = 1.4
vertex shader info:
fragment shader info:
info:
743 frames in 5.0 seconds = 148.541 FPS
751 frames in 5.0 seconds = 150.110 FPS
765 frames in 5.0 seconds = 152.908 FPS
743 frames in 5.0 seconds = 148.600 FPS
718 frames in 5.0 seconds = 143.600 FPS
^C
root@upstairs:/usr# glxgears
757 frames in 5.0 seconds = 151.227 FPS
872 frames in 5.0 seconds = 174.272 FPS
838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 167.566 FPS
^C
root@upstairs:/usr# uname -a
Linux upstairs 4.19.97-v7+ #1294 SMP Thu Jan 30 13:15:58 GMT 2020
armv7l GNU/Linux

Debian Stretch on my Pinebook Pro has the 60 hz limit in effect.
That's a Mali.  Probably works fine under Android which is their bread
and butter.  Actually I could try that, the PBP has an Android image
available, it just doesn't sound very interesting so I didn't bother.


On 3/1/20, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> The whole point of my rant is that the instant folks find out that 64 bit
>>
>> will run on whatever platform we are discusing, and armhf needs more
>> attention paid to details like addressing beyond 3 gigs, PAE IOW, 6
>> months later there are no armhf distros left.
>
> FWIW, I'm finding hard to believe that the AArch64 architecture
> necessarily suffers from 10 times higher latency than the AArch32.
>
> I suspect that your problems with the Aarch64 architecture are due to
> the fact that there have been less efforts at keeping the latency of
> Linux-on-AArch64 under control, and that should improve over time.
>
> It's possible that the best latency will still be worse than what you
> can get with AArch32, but not as bad as 10 times as bad.
>
>> That, and only the raspi supplied srcs know about the mali video,
>> giving us full screen glxgears at 60 fps since buster 10.2.
>
> Really?  I can't see any trace of Mali hardware in the Raspberry Pi
> specification.  AFAICT the rpi3 comes with a Videocore IV while the rpi4
> comes with a Videocore VI.
> So I'm not sure what good software support for mali would do.
>
>> That  mali video is not now nor from statements made by debian folks,
>> will
>> never be available from debian so debian is doomed to 3 fps framebuffer
>> displays.
>
> The official Mali driver from ARM is proprietary and there are no signs
> of ARM getting their head out of the asses in this regard, so indeed in
> the foreseeable future there's no plan to incorporate the Mali driver
> into Debian.  This said, there's a Free Software driver and it's
> definitely included in Debian (the kernel part included since Linux-5.2
> and the userland part since Mesa-19.1)
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>


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