What does this mean for Pi4 owners?

FeFiFoFum · October 14, 2020 at 8:44 AM

Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3 - Phoronix

**Da Flex** · October 14, 2020 at 5:56 PM Official Post

LE's GUI is coded in EGL, so in theory we could switch to Vulkan and get a faster GUI. In practice we need a Vulkan expert, who can adapt from EGL to Vulkan, and of course he / she has to do all the work for free - not very likely.

FeFiFoFum · October 14, 2020 at 11:20 PM

Ok darn!!!

I posted about being unhappy with Pi4 performance for LibreElec and someone mentioned the video driver is the problem. This is a shame.

**Da Flex** · October 15, 2020 at 12:10 AM Official Post

Yes, it is. I have some EGL experience, and I know there are some tweaks to speed up the GUI even without Vulkan. Feel free to start developing. It's open source, but EGL / Vulkan is no easy job.

FeFiFoFum · October 27, 2020 at 4:55 AM

Some "Video Core 6" drivers, will eventually result in significantly better performance for LibreElec, RPi4 - that's what I thought.

I will wait, patiently.

mattlach · October 29, 2020 at 9:03 PM

Is interface speed really a problem on Rpi4 though?

What does this mean for Pi4 owners?

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