So there is support for Open GL ES 3.1, but how can I use it on the Raspberry Pi 4? Is there any other way to use the GPU for calculations such as fft and logarithm?
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I have the exact same question, except that I'm looking to do image processing in the Videocore. But I can't find anything. Did you end up finding something? – gromain Mar 18 '21 at 21:33
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1Sorry, but not really. The only thing I found is related to the MESA graphics library but I haven't researched it any further. – Hneggbrand May 06 '21 at 17:28
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Check for the boot partition. There you can find many overlays. Try using them. And install mesa gl driver. Then you can activate them from raspi-config
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The RPi4 has an experimental Opengl "fake" kms driver, but I haven't found a good method to use the API to program for it. – Hneggbrand Aug 19 '20 at 13:37
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This answer is quite useless I'm afraid to say. You could have posted just a bit more information about what to look for to ease the pain for others.
So, in there ( https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-5.4.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/README ), look for overlays starting with
– gromain Mar 18 '21 at 21:29vc4. However those seems to be related to display drivers, so they may not do what @Hneggbrand is looking for.
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You might like to look at Pete Warden's work using Deep Learning for image recognition with the RPi's GPU here. If you want to code using the GPU have a look at QPILib which is an astonishing piece of work building a language to code on to the Rpi's GPU using only C++'s macro language.
QPULib is a programming language and compiler for the Raspberry Pi's Quad Processing Units (QPUs). It is implemented as a C++ library that runs on the Pi's ARM CPU, generating and offloading programs to the QPUs at runtime.
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3These work with Videocore IV as do all the others I have seen, while the RPi4 has the newer Videocore VI graphics chip. – Hneggbrand Aug 19 '20 at 13:36