Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello Bret,

On Sat, 24 Nov 2018, bret curtis wrote:
> This is a very wrong assumption, the OpenGL on a RPi (all of them) is
> hardware accelerated via the VC4 mesa driver by Eric Anholt which is
> shipped, by default, on by Raspbian. It supports up to OpenGL 2.1 and
> if you plan on having hardware accelerated X11 or Wayland, you need
> the VC4 driver. You'll need "Desktop" OpenGL otherwise nothing will
> work on a RPi system, which as of 2015 has over 5 million units
> shipped. This is not an insignificant user base.

Can you back up this claim with some external documentation?
Or at least pointer the appropriate part of the code?

https://github.com/anholt/mesa/wiki/VC4-OpenGL-support says that the
VC4 hardware is a GLES 2.0 renderer and it would seem strange that
the mesa driver for it would not support OpenGL ES.

Cheers,
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