Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

[Diederik de Haas]

On zaterdag 24 november 2018 15:23:51 CET bret curtis wrote:
> There is a misunderstanding here and also in this thread. The Raspberry Pi
> has the VC4 GPU which is hardware accelerated Desktop OpenGL 2.1 via the
> VC4 Mesa driver.[1] This driver is fully open-source unlike the binary blob
> it comes with that only supports GLESv2, but not via X11 nor Wayland.
> 
> So the only way to support Qt with hardware (not software) accelerated GL on
> the RPi is with the VC4 mesa driver and Desktop GL.

Are you sure? (Just asking as I know very little about these things, but I'm 
very interested in RPi)

"VC4 at the hardware level is a GLES 2.0 renderer. However, along with GLES 
2.0, the Mesa driver also exposes OpenGL 2.1, which is mostly correct but with 
a few caveats."

from https://github.com/anholt/mesa/wiki/VC4-OpenGL-support
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