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The GPU has nothing to do with what the OS on the CPU is doing - it's an entirely separate architecture anyway (VideoCore 6 on RPi4). The reason their /opt/vc
by Vogtinator 7y ago
The GPU has nothing to do with what the OS on the CPU is doing - it's an entirely separate architecture anyway (VideoCore 6 on RPi4).
The reason their /opt/vc stuff doesn't support 64bit is because there are proprietary binaries directly from Broadcom. Also, they use interfaces provided only by the downstream RPi kernel.
There is a blog post from the RPi foundation about support for VC6 in Mesa.
- the-dude 7y agoWhat do you exactly mean by "/opt/vc" stuff? OpenGL? Because I am decoding, encoding and rendering 1080p H264 with the VC on a 64-bit kernel.
- jackalo 7y agoThings like vcgencmd that allow you to read and write values to the GPU OS that actually controls the physical hardware.
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