Notices by Robert Mader (rmader@mastodon.social)

@martijnbraam I personally would also love GLES 2.0 era hardware to stay supported, but having worked on that myself in Mutter I can definitely see why GTK folks decided that it's just getting too much into the way - especially when you refactor things in ways that suit modern renderers.

@martijnbraam GTK prefers GLES over GL these days and GLES 3.0 is the baseline now, like in Firefox (which never enabled HW acceleration for GL(ES) 2.x).

I can see that this is quite unfortunate for the PinePhone and Librem 5. But then GLES 3.0 is almost 13 years old and even a Thinkpad x220 from ~2012 supports it just fine - and that certainly doesn't count as "latest and greatest Macbooks".

AFAIK there's a certain chance that etnaviv will support GLES 3.0 eventually on the Librem though

@martijnbraam AFAIK it's not that easy. You can't just keep a backend sitting there when you add new features and restructure things - it's a constant source of work. Firefox dropped the GL 2.x renderer years ago for good reasons.

For the specific case of Megapixels I suppose switching to QT might be the best option indeed, assuming there are enough users in the embedded space to ensure GLES 2.0 stays supported for another couple of years :/

First try to create #libcamera swISP tuning files for the OnePlus6 with #ideasonboard folks at #embeddedworld. Unfortunately we hit an issue that we couldn't fix on-side - got a few todos to make sure things work out next time!

#postmarketos #linuxmobile

For #linuxmobile #postmarketos #mobian folks interested in cameras: there's a first version of patches for #libcamera softwareISP color correction matrix (CCM) support now: https://patchwork.libcamera.org/cover/22041/

Together with autofocus (AF) this probably the main missing feature to get a somewhat reasonable image quality on devices like the #pixel3a or #fairphone5 with open drivers / close to #mainlinelinux.