Raspberry PI Zero W OpenGL support [old]

[beddu]

Hello everybody!

I am thinking to buy a Rapberry PI Zero W to build a 7" wireless LCD.
The software connects through a wireless network to a remote server, receives some data, and shows it up as a nice OpenGL rendered screen with several very simple animations.
I did not find (until now) any explicit information about OpenGL support on Raspberry PI Zero (W). That means "of course it is supported" or "of course it is NOT supported"? Can anybody share a link with some infos?

Thank you all for your time!!

[ait]

in this release we are shipping an experimental OpenGL driver for the desktop which uses the GPU to provide hardware acceleration. This is turned off by default – if you want to enable it, you can find it in the command-line version of raspi-config, under Advanced Options->GL Driver. Due to memory requirements, this will not work on Pi 1 or Pi Zero boards – it is solely for Pi 2. (raspi-config will only allow it to be enabled on a Pi 2; be warned that if you enable it on a Pi 2 and then move that SD card into a Pi 1 or Pi Zero, the Pi will not boot.)

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/anothe ... n-release/

[6by9]

Pi0 and Pi1 have OpenGLES support through the firmware. They don't have full OpenGL support.

[hansotten]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_ES

Raspberry Pi seems to support OpenGL ES 2.0

[beddu]

in this release we are shipping an experimental OpenGL driver for the desktop which uses the GPU to provide hardware acceleration. This is turned off by default – if you want to enable it, you can find it in the command-line version of raspi-config, under Advanced Options->GL Driver. Due to memory requirements, this will not work on Pi 1 or Pi Zero boards – it is solely for Pi 2. (raspi-config will only allow it to be enabled on a Pi 2; be warned that if you enable it on a Pi 2 and then move that SD card into a Pi 1 or Pi Zero, the Pi will not boot.)

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/anothe ... n-release/

This talks about the desktop, I do not need it because it will be a screen without user interaction.

[beddu]

Pi0 and Pi1 have OpenGLES support through the firmware. They don't have full OpenGL support.

That's perfect!! Thank you!

[jdonald]

Googling for what it takes to get OpenGL to run on the Pi Zero tends to take me to this topic. For others who land here, see the actual workarond detailed in another thread: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... p?t=166495

Not officially supported, but I've confirmed it works on Buster. With cma-128 and gpu_mem=16 I'm able to boot fkms and it leaves about 180 MB of remaining system memory to work with.

[Gavinmc42]

OpenGL has been running on Pi3's in Gentoo64 for 2 years?
That's a 64bit OS but the same VC4.

Buster will have newer Mesa drivers and be compiled for 32bit.
So a lighter OS like PiCore with the newer Mesa drivers would be fastest VC4 OpenGL solution?
How much performance difference is there between OpenGL and OpenGLES on VC4 Pi's?

Are there any light weight OS's apart from Raspbian using Mesa 19.+?
Do they all need x11?
I don't know those answers, so I use use Ultibo and do it baremetal

[mahjongg]

OpenGL has been running on Pi3's in Gentoo64 for 2 years?

Gentoo won't work on the RPI Zero, so your reply is off topic.

Also this thread is from 2017, so it describes a situation that is now obsolete.