Dolphin on the pi 4?

[MayImilae]

(06-30-2019, 08:35 PM)Intruso Wrote: Also in the same website VideoCore VI appears as Vulkan 1.1 capable:
https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products

That is not the Raspberry Pi 4, that's a completely different SoC. Specifically, the Pi 4 is the Broadcom BCM2711, whereas what is on khronos in that link is the Broadcom BCM7278. The Broadcom BCM7278 is probably for one of their set top box products.

As always, just because the hardware can do it, doesn't mean the video drivers can do it. In this case, the set top boxes are under a totally different (and very closed) environment than the Raspberry Pi and use their own proprietary driver stack, while the Raspberry Pi is open and uses the open source driver stack. These video drivers are very different, so don't expect that capability to carry over to the Pi 4! Especially since they lost the only employee they had working on the Mesa driver stack.

The video driver situation may improve, but it may not. What it does currently is all we can be sure of!

(06-30-2019, 08:35 PM)Intruso Wrote: I found at khronos.org that VideoCore V (the previous version of RP4's GPU) is OpenGLES3.1 conformant
https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products/opengles
...so we can assume VideoCore VI is at least hardware capable with ES3.1.

Don't make that assumption! Support can go down with new hardware. Since their only employee working no Mesa has left, it isn't that surprising that their driver support has worsened.