How does hardware video acceleration work on ARM? (feddit.it)

submitted 9 months ago by odi_3@feddit.it to c/fedora@lemmy.ml

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How does hardware video acceleration work on ARM? I would like to install Fedora on a Raspberry Pi, but first I would like to make sure I can take advantage of hardware video acceleration. Most likely ARM GPUs don't support VAAPI and I don't think there are tools equivalent to vainfo and intel_gpu_top. I'm looking for someone who can provide me with information on this topic 🙂 Thanks

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[-] odi_3@feddit.it 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And I would also like to understand what the environment variable is that identifies the correct driver (assuming one is necessary).

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It's not an environment variable, it's the kernel detecting and loading the proper modules that hand off acceleration to userspace driver packages like Mesa.

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