Sunday 5 June 2016

Re:Re: OpenGL to OpenGL ES change on arm64?

Hi All,
We have ARM64 devices used AMD Radeon  Series graphics cards。So,same as x86 we really need a full OpenGL Qt support With ARM64 。


At 2016-06-04 08:48:17, "Steve Langasek" <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> wrote: >On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 02:00:04AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> > There are two ways to make a GLES-enabled Qt stack available on arm64; the >> > armhf way (build Qt exclusively for GLES), or the x86 way (build alternative >> > stacks for both GL and GLES). > >> > Which we should pursue depends on whether there is a use case for OpenGL Qt >> > software anywhere on ARM64. > >> > For the phone / embedded GPU case, we have no known chips providing >> > accelerated OpenGL drivers. > >> > For the server / add-on GPU case, we have no known uses for GUI toolkits - >> > only CUDA and GPU-accelerated computation. > >> > So from what I know, we should be fine to ship GLES-only Qt on ARM64, and >> > delete any ARM64 binaries from the archive that require GL-enabled Qt. > >> so why change something, if we know we won't use it? If we see the need >> for both stacks, why not keeping the current default, and then go the x86 >> way later? You seem to propose a third way to do it, defaulting to GLES, >> and then adding support for GL if needed. This looks like extra work, and >> unique to arm64. > >I think you're confused here. We *are* going to be using the Qt GLES stack, >for 64-bit ARM phones / devices. We have an immediate need for GLES-enabled >Qt because these chips have accelerated GLES drivers, not accelerated GL >drivers. > >And this is exactly the same thing that we already have on armhf, not a >"third way". > >-- >Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS >Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. >Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ >slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org