(2016-02-09, 22:35)GhostRaider Wrote: Good news folks. Rasbian now has beta OpenGL drivers for Raspberry Pi 2! Wonder if it does anything for Kodi. Not sure if it will work on OSMC.
You need to scroll a bit down to see how to enable it:
Rasberry Pi Blog
It's very early days for the open source OpenGL driver.
In theory you could run a generic OpenGL build and the GUI would be hardware accelerated (but not video).
A Pi specific build won't work, as that already expects to be talking to the GPU side driver.
Would it be faster? Hard to say.
The driver runs on the arm rather than the gpu, so will be slower in some respects (the arm may well already be busy),
but latency may be better for blocking operations (a round trip to gpu is not required). However Kodi rarely uses blocking operations.
It is interesting though. I suspect a build supporting it will appear one day, but it does need some work to be done.
