Bug#881333: tracking OpenGL support for specific boards

Timo Jyrinki timo.jyrinki at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 06:56:59 GMT 2019


pe 30. marrask. 2018 klo 1.26 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
(perezmeyer at gmail.com) kirjoitti:
> > > Keep in mind, only the proprietary drivers seem to not support opengl
> > > while the hardware is perfectly capable of doing so.
> >
> > Not necessarily.
> > If the manufacturer specifies OpenGL ES support, then - on the hardware
> > level - it is a GLES renderer and may or may not support the entire
> > OpenGL specification natively. It usually requires considerable work to
> > make GLES hardware support OpenGL.
>
> So the real place which should be fixed is, somehow, in Qt itself, and
> preferably by not hacking libs.

Surely the best solution would indeed be getting
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-36829 fixed, but there is
unfortunately no reported recent progress.

-Timo



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