OpenGL ES API support (was Re: Updated Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available)

[Thomas Voß]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> On Mo, 2016-09-26 at 16:26 -0500, Kevin Gunn wrote:
>> @including the gpu drivers, yes, this is pretty simple - at least
>> with dragonboard, you simply pull in mesa as a part and you get the
>> freedreno driver and you would honestly get the same with rpi2/3
>> since afaik I think the vc5 drivers under gallium will get you what
>> you want.
>> Now with rpi2/3, the hitch isn't actually the gpu drivers per se,
>> it's that our rpi kernel doesn't have some patches required that are
>> available from the raspbian kernel - but that's the extent of my
>> knowledge. tvoss was able to patch and rebuild the kernel about a
>> week ago. So what's needed is having someone from the kernel team
>> take custody of those patches and incorporate them into our kernel.
>>
> can you make sure paolo (CCed) gets these patches in his hand so we can
> get them added to our deb and snap packages ?
>

Paolo is working with me already, no worries :)

Cheers,

  Thomas
> ciao
>         oli
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