Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver

VK driver for the Raspberry Pi (Broadcom Videocore IV)

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updated Apr 22, 2021

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RPi-VK-Driver

RPi-VK-Driver is a low level GPU driver for the Broadcom Videocore IV GPU that implements a subset of the Vulkan (registered trademark of The Khronos Group) standard. The implementation is not conformant to the standard (therefore it cannot be called a Vulkan driver, officially) but tries to follow it as closely as the hardware allows for it.
Compared to the available OpenGL drivers it offers superb speed including precise and predictable memory management and multi-threaded command submission. It also offers a wider feature set such as MSAA support, low level assembly shaders and performance counters. On the other hand it currently does not support GLSL shaders.

Building

Please follow the instructions in the Build.md file. https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver/blob/master/BUILD.md

Wiki

For further information please take a look at the Wiki section: https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver/wiki

Supported hardware

The driver currently supports the following Raspberry Pi models:

  • Zero
  • Zero W
  • 1 Model A
  • 1 Model A+
  • 1 Model B
  • 1 Model B+
  • 2 Model B
  • 3 Model A+
  • 3 Model B
  • 3 Model B+
  • Compute Module 1
  • Compute Module 3
  • Compute Module 3 lite
  • Compute Module 3+
  • Compute Module 3+ lite
broadcom
broadcom-videocore-iv
driver
gpu
raspberry-pi
raspberrypi
rpi-vk-driver
videocore-iv

Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver

VK driver for the Raspberry Pi (Broadcom Videocore IV)

C++

1,242

491 commits

updated Apr 22, 2021

See the code

README

RPi-VK-Driver

RPi-VK-Driver is a low level GPU driver for the Broadcom Videocore IV GPU that implements a subset of the Vulkan (registered trademark of The Khronos Group) standard. The implementation is not conformant to the standard (therefore it cannot be called a Vulkan driver, officially) but tries to follow it as closely as the hardware allows for it.
Compared to the available OpenGL drivers it offers superb speed including precise and predictable memory management and multi-threaded command submission. It also offers a wider feature set such as MSAA support, low level assembly shaders and performance counters. On the other hand it currently does not support GLSL shaders.

Building

Please follow the instructions in the Build.md file. https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver/blob/master/BUILD.md

Wiki

For further information please take a look at the Wiki section: https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver/wiki

Supported hardware

The driver currently supports the following Raspberry Pi models:

  • Zero
  • Zero W
  • 1 Model A
  • 1 Model A+
  • 1 Model B
  • 1 Model B+
  • 2 Model B
  • 3 Model A+
  • 3 Model B
  • 3 Model B+
  • Compute Module 1
  • Compute Module 3
  • Compute Module 3 lite
  • Compute Module 3+
  • Compute Module 3+ lite
broadcom
broadcom-videocore-iv
driver
gpu
raspberry-pi
raspberrypi
rpi-vk-driver
videocore-iv

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