14:37 <nsuns> Will there ever be decent mesa driver support for mali gpus like equivalent to freedreno? Or best to just give up.. we'll forever be stuck buying overpriced snapdragon h/w.

14:39 <soreau> panfrost?

14:54 <nsuns> There doesn't seem to be any videos on youtube of yuzu emu running on panfrost, so can only assume it's not there yet. Everyone uses turnip. :/

14:57 <CounterPillow> nsuns: Arm has just recently announced a partnership with Collabora that seems to amount to making all future mali GPU drivers open as part of panthor/panfrost.

14:58 <CounterPillow> Panfrost supports OpenGL ES 3.1 already, and Vulkan support is being worked on for v10+ hardware.

15:01 <CounterPillow> Yuzu's problem in particular appears to be a requirement for OpenGL 4.6 or Vulkan 1.1, neither of which Panfrost supports (right now). Vulkan 1.1 is probably feasible on v10+ (e.g. rockchip rk3588)

15:06 <CounterPillow> If you wanna play along at home and help develop panfrost further, your average RK3588(S) board will run you between $100 and $200. ROCK5B seems to be the SBC Collabora's people are using as a dev platform right now. Here's their draft MR for v10 support in mesa https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/26358

15:06 <CounterPillow> This depends on an in-progress kernel patchset, and the whole thing also needs some way to output video which is a WIP patchset, and CPU reclocking also isn't mainline yet, so it's all very bleeding edge right now :)