Vulkan support for Pi4 Mesa available now?
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Anyone tried it yet or have a how to on adding it?
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Not yet, but I'll be looking forward to the December update.
"As noted by Phoronix, Mesa 20.3, the latest version of Mesa, is scheduled to be released as stable in early December and because it is part of Mesa, it's easier for Raspberry Pi Linux distributions to offer this Broadcom Vulkan driver."
Which, if any, emulators would be able to take advantage of this straight away? Would they need updates to be able to take advantage of this?
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@George-Spiggott
I understand, I thought RetroArch did support it but the raspi lacked it.I did read about the December update, my pi3 gets a lot more use than my Pi4 as it seems to perform better all around.
I also picked up an Odroid N2 which is amazing for emulation, however it lacks the community and cool peripherals so I’m hoping that this driver helps.
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retroarch supports it as a graphics driver but it's used for simple blitting to the screen, so no perceivable advantage in 2d emulators. another side effect is that the usual GLSL shaders we use will not work with vulkan - you have to use SLANG ones.
3d cores and standalone emulators may have vulkan implementations, which would take advantage of the new speed/features. lr-parallel would be a fun experiment (though i expect not viable at all). duckstation, beetle-psx, flycast, ppsspp, and dolphin are potentially viable ones that i can think of.
another issue is, does the vulkan driver still need X? that's not ideal.
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