Vulkan support to Librem 5

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GTK the main libraries for Phosh now has support for Vulkan, now we need the Libre Vulkan driver to get the Enormous benefits to Librem 5…

  • Community fundraiser to initial develop a Libre Vulkan driver is required.
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Just a side note: It’s not GIMP ToolKit anymore, that was back when it was still called GTK+. Nowadays it’s just GTK. :blush:.

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I talked with Alyssa Rosenzweig the collabora developer to implement vulkan to L5, but she said it busy ATM.
Also i talked with Christian Smeiner, Christian told me he already has a Librem 5 and that he is ready to support vulkan or gles3.0 to L5 but he want to be sponsored by purism @todd-weaver

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That is IF it gets to ship…

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GLES 3.0 WIP for L5, and heading for Vulkan

Christian Gmeiner:

I am working on gles3.0. Will land it piece by piece in mesa master and
therefore in the next releases. Let's see how fast I am :)
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Thank you, in concrete terms, what would this change? OS fluidity? Video fluidity? thanks

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Yes video fluidity and modern graffic render

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That’s definitely a nice thing. Videos are fluid enough in my opinion, but phone gets too hot and drain battery a lot while playing videos. Am I correct thinking it will improve both, too? What’s your opinion?

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How you playing the videos in Firefox, Epiphany, Mpv, Totem?

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Oh yes, forgot to tell about … Firefox fullscreen.

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Firefox doesn’t do any kind of video acceleration at the moment. Epiphany does for some formats.

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That was an unexpected answer. Epiphany doesn’t fit other more important needs. So I guess I have to live with the warming. Thanks for reply.

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There is rumors that Firefox v116 will come with H.264 Hard Accel by V4L2M2M-FFMPEG and v117 or v118 for VP8/VP9 too.

I will test this features in GNU Icecat as Firefox does not true Free Software so i not using Firefox but Epiphany.

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That sounds great (and thx for link). Unfortunately FFesr (and also IceCat) is v102 and will take a huge time until v116+. But for people who could wait that long for L5 are also able to wait for this feature.

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My pleasure. Stay Librem5.

This will not take long time and the features will available may be in ffesr 102.13 or 102.14.

I hope that @dos will enable V4L2M2M in FFMPEG in Pure OS as in last time that i checked this feature is not enabled.

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GLES 3.0 RoadMap for GNU_Librem 5

  • carlosgonz: How going GLES3.0?
  • christian Gmeiner: Really great… all the pieces are coming together. Next big part I
    want to land is MRT support
    followed by the new backend compiler.

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Thanks 0xd05

I will Verify what type of format it supporting…

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Awesome to see progress on that front. Have you heard anything on Vulkan as well? I assume it’s on the TODO?

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First sorry for late reply.
Vulkan does Not on Todo list on Etnaviv ATM. But GLES3.0.
The Year 2023 in Retrospect | Christian Gmeiner Enjoy it!
christian already own one Librem 5.

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