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I use a rk3288 Chromebook with Crouton. While I couldn't get GPU accelerated X under that environment I did manage to run some OpenCL demos, which is significa

by Lerc 10y ago

I use a rk3288 Chromebook with Crouton. While I couldn't get GPU accelerated X under that environment I did manage to run some OpenCL demos, which is significantly more than I was expecting. I'm not sure why Chipsets list their capabilities as being GLes only when they seem far more capable than Full OpenGL cards from years past, I would have thought that part would be down to drivers more than anything. What could a i740 do that the Mali760 can't?

my123 10y ago
Nothing. It's just that OpenGL drivers are incredibly complex. That same hardware supports DirectX 11 on Windows...
- TD-Linux 10y ago
  Another example is Mesa, where chips like the Raspberry Pi's VC4 and Adreno support desktop OpenGL because Mesa already has much of the plumbing in place, whereas the proprietary drivers only implement ES.