[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] gles2 on raspi3

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu 2017-04-20 @ 05:41:44 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote:
>> Yes, VC4 indeed works for both 32bits and 64bits. It was first introduced  .
>> for 32bits, actually Regarding why still using userland: at this point in  .
>> time, we have accelerated HW codec (H.264, MPEG2, some audio) only if using.
>> userland If one doesn't need that, then VC4 is, in my opinion, the way to  .
>> go. Otherwise, userland still needs to be used                             .
>
> What decoder is needed to play youtube videos?
>
> Using Andreas' meta-raspi-light (which removes userland and only uses vc4)
> I've spent the last hour or so watching youtube videos from my raspberrypi3
> (32-bit build) in chromium, accelerated, with sound (both via the HDMI and the
> jack), both on the big monitor and the 7" waveshare touchscreen. Not to
> mention I can now run openGL and GLESx apps accelerated.
>

try to play 1080p video and you will see the difference. I use my pi3
as media center using kodi, I am waiting for vc4 driver to get
feature/performance parity with userland until then we have to keep
using it atleast for media centric usecases.

> I wasn't able to do that with userland. In fact, it was quite a struggle just
> to get it to build!
>
> Maybe I did something wrong with userland, but vc4 is successful, and
> certainly easier to work with.
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