Chromium GPU support on Manjaro
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It's a wild combination of many things, from what I know about it (I might be wrong!):

Mesa / OpenGL / Panfrost (GPU) is different from hardware video decoding (VPU).

Non-blob VPU hardware decoding is still being implemented in the kernel (hantro driver) and also needs libva-v4l2-request (the whole vaapi-/libva-/etc.-concept is a somewhat messy one). Work is being done on this, experimental patches are at https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9171.
To add to this, not all codecs are yet supported (vp8/vp9(?) is still unsupported, iirc).

And then chromium probably actually needs to be built with va-api support; for reasons™ the ChromiumOS changes for this are not included in mainline Chromium.

(And if I recall correctly, there was also some ChromiumOS-specific libva-v4l2-request-thing that wasn't just easily portable or something along that line, but I can't find this right now, so take this with a few grains of salt).

There's https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi/ with at least the Chromium-patches included, but that's for x86_64 only. I've been building caidao (ungoogled-chromium) with the va-api patches for a while now for x86_64 and aarch64 (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9452), but this, of course, isn't enough (yet) to get hardware video decoding without blobs on Manjaro, unfortunately, for the other reasons above.


Messages In This Thread
Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by krist - 04-19-2020, 06:39 AM
RE: Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by krist - 04-20-2020, 04:16 AM
RE: Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by llsf - 04-20-2020, 05:03 AM
RE: Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by krist - 04-20-2020, 06:34 AM
RE: Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by maxjrh - 04-20-2020, 06:40 AM
RE: Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by krist - 04-20-2020, 06:58 AM
RE: Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by krist - 04-20-2020, 02:20 PM
RE: Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by xmixahlx - 04-20-2020, 06:20 PM
RE: Chromium GPU support on Manjaro - by krist - 05-01-2020, 12:50 PM

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