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<jenneron[m]> hexdump0815: do you have a build of firefox? is it upstreamed?
<jenneron[m]> I would like to try it on peach-pit
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<hexdump0815> jenneron[m]: i so far only read about it and that it is supposed to be in the firefox nightly builds now
<hexdump0815> jenneron[m]: looks like there are no aarch64 nightly builds ... but in the end if its in the nightlies now it should make its way into regular firefox soon
<hexdump0815> jenneron[m]: btw. this might be interesting to play around with for gpu support on mt8173: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20230613144800.52657-1-sarah.walker@imgtec.com/
<hexdump0815> maybe this together with zink opengl on vulkan can be made working somehow - put it looks like its still very much work in progress and i guess even a lot of effort to even try it
<hexdump0815> i have put it onto my list to maybe have a look at at some point in time, but i guess not in summer :)
<jenneron[m]> hexdump0815: mesa driver currently depends on an old API (old out of tree driver, like in chrome os)
<jenneron[m]> you would need to build mesa with the MR switching to a new API
<jenneron[m]> and you can't use zink, there are no implemented extensions enough
<jenneron[m]> go to https://mesamatrix.net/ > Vulkan > Driver details, see `pvr` there
<jenneron[m]> compare it to https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/zink.html
<hexdump0815> jenneron[m]: good point - looks like there is quite a bit more waiting required before it is worth looking into this
<hexdump0815> trying to use the old blobs from chromeos does not make much sense neither as they are only available in 32bit and its unclear how far one can get with them
<hexdump0815> the starfive visionfive 2 risc-v board has a similar setup and even there it is a pain to use - and that is even with starfive trying to get it working somehow
<jenneron[m]> waste of time taking into account that there is mesa driver actively worked on
<jenneron[m]> and video decoding should work
<hexdump0815> yes - i fully agree ... its interesting that essentially two people did reverse engineer the apple m1 gpu (which seems to have some pvr origin) way faster than imgtec needs to mainline their own stuff :)
<jenneron[m]> hexdump0815: there is much activity in mesa about pvr. last time I checked ther were several MRs per week
<jenneron[m]> probably vulkan 1.0 is more complicated than gles2
<hexdump0815> yes that is for sure ... it will simply take its time and one day it will hopefully be there