On Saturday, November 24, 2018 08:36:11 PM bret curtis wrote: > > > There are more than 5 million Raspberry Pis were sold as of February > > > 2015. > > > All of them with a VC4 GPU, Raspbian ships with the VC4 mesa driver > > > enabled! > > > > > > I'm of the opinion that the switch away from Desktop OpenGL to GLES was > > > a > > > huge mistake and should be reversed as soon as possible unless there is > > > a > > > way to provide for both on all archtictures. > > > > Well, f you can prove this for armhf and/or armel, we can certainly do it. > > The Raspberry Pi is armhf. What would you like me to prove? Sadly I > can't help you with armel, but with armhf, according to some sources > the number of RPi's sold in the last 5 years is 12 million [1]. > Admidetly, not all of them will be used as a desktop, but it is still > nothing to sneeze at and it is shame that we've had to prevent > compiling OpenMW on armhf and armel just because Qt was compiled > against GLES. We've had to introduce "libqt5opengl5-dev, > libqt5opengl5-desktop-dev [armel armhf]" in the debian/control file as > a result. [2] This makes sure that OpenMW can't ever be built on on > armel and armhf with "BD-Uninstallable". [3] > > openmw build-depends on missing: > - libqt5opengl5-desktop-dev:armhf > ^-- sad state of affairs that this even exists!
We have a Rasberry Pi working as a desktop here at my house. It's quite usable as long as you only try to do a few things at a time, but it's not by any means zippy. I strongly suspect that moving back from GLES would move it from "reasonable for limited use" to "pointless". Please don't do anything to make things even slower. Scott K
