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Re: Raspberry Pi GPU goes open source!
« on: March 01, 2014, 06:31:14 PM »
I'd considered getting one of these once, but then I realized that the most powerful MAME games they can pull off, are from the pre 16-bit era.  At least from what I've seen demonstrated thus far. Or am I missing something?
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Re: Raspberry Pi GPU goes open source!
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2014, 11:14:45 PM »
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Anything that uses OpenGL ES will absolutely fly on the current linux build for the Raspberry Pi, but anything that needs X will crawl. This is because the drivers were closed source and X was unaccelerated. But now the gfx drivers are opensource, so hopefully someone will write accelerated X drivers :)


I'll keep my eyes open.
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