Re: HOWTO for RPi4 and -current?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mayuresh%acm.org@localhost (Mayuresh) writes:

>What design compulsions force it to be like that? Such that only their own
>media player works with the GPU? With so many open source media players
>out their, writing another one for pi doesn't sound like the best use of
>their resources.

There is some public documentation for the VideoCore IV (RPI0-3)
and almost none for the VideoCore VI (RPI4).

There are now open-source DRM drivers for both (vc4, v3d), partially
based on the public documentation, reverse engineering and probably
some NDA information.

Using these, other media players can utilize the RPI GPUs. On Linux.