Siarhei,
This reply of yours might be one of the single most informative emails
I've received in my life! Thank you so much for taking the time to write
this down for me, this is wonderful :-)
On 09/24/15 14:24, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> Do you mean just various free software applications by "anything else"?
>
> The point is that the Mali drivers only support OpenGL ES, which is a
> subset of full OpenGL. And the vast majority of free software Linux
> applications are typically targeting full fledged OpenGL, with only a
> few rare exceptions.
Having previously been ignorant, I'm shocked to hear this! I had assumed
the binary mali drivers made everything better.
Are there ways to accelerate "the other stuff" (i.e. the full fledged
OpenGL)? My guess is that mesa does "the other stuff", but not
necessarily accelerated? In other words, if I wanted to put together a
system that was as accelerated as possible (but didn't know what
applications might be run on the device over its lifetime), what else
(other than the binary mali user-space driver) would I need?
How do openCL and gstreamer fit into this picture? Can they talk to the
binary arm user-space drivers? Or maybe a better question might be: is
openGL ES the *only* API the binary user-space drivers expose?! How
would one place accelerated videos on a device (either standalone or via
a browser)?
Best regards,
Trevor
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