07-01-2019, 05:21 AM
First impressions of the Pi4 are mixed.. as a standard SBC its very nice, fast and smooth.
but..
it seems to currently have no hardware GPU drivers and is currently using Mesa libs with emulation which is a disaster for us doing graphics.
At this point it seems to be a total bust, as it can't run any of the standard raspbian demo's without major changes (basically running as a standard linux machine) which very quickly throws up the limits of emulated mesa libs.
I am surprised by this, and hope its just me doing something wrong, but if indeed it has no hardware gpu support, we'll havet to put it in the drawer of shame for a while until they sort it out.
but..
it seems to currently have no hardware GPU drivers and is currently using Mesa libs with emulation which is a disaster for us doing graphics.
At this point it seems to be a total bust, as it can't run any of the standard raspbian demo's without major changes (basically running as a standard linux machine) which very quickly throws up the limits of emulated mesa libs.
I am surprised by this, and hope its just me doing something wrong, but if indeed it has no hardware gpu support, we'll havet to put it in the drawer of shame for a while until they sort it out.
Brian Beuken
Lecturer in Game Programming at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Author of The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming: Using Target-based Development on SBC's
Lecturer in Game Programming at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Author of The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming: Using Target-based Development on SBC's