Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

W. Martin Borgert debacle at debian.org
Fri Nov 23 11:15:38 GMT 2018


Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>:
> Granted, I don’t really know what the real world distribution of  
> embedded and desktop/server/laptop devices of arm64 is.  But I could  
> imagine that there will be more arm64 devices in the future which  
> are desktops, servers or laptops.

There is e.g. this project from Berlin:

https://mntmn.com/reform/

It says:

  * Vivante GC3000 GPU
    Fully open source drivers in the Linux kernel (etnaviv)
    and OpenGL (mesa)

I will buy one as soon as available.

There is also Novena:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

No idea what they use for graphics.

Cheers




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