There is a lot of misinformation being spouted here.
When running the latest Raspberry Pi OS, a lot of the desktop is accelerated in hardware and all the graphics compositing is done by a combination of the 3D block (using MESA) and the 2D block (using DRM). We are moving to LabWC from Wayfire as the Wayland compositor, it just works better. So moving windows about etc is all accelerated.
In X11, there is less HW acceleration (but not none) as X11 does not really work that well with HW acceleration. All our dev work is on DRM/KMS, MESA and Wayland nowadays as it simply works better with the HW.
You need the right packages installed to take advantage of that.
The only thing on Pi 5 that is no longer HW accelerated is H264 decode - this is done entirely in software as it's now faster and more featureful than the HW H264 decoder on the Piu4 and earlier.
When running the latest Raspberry Pi OS, a lot of the desktop is accelerated in hardware and all the graphics compositing is done by a combination of the 3D block (using MESA) and the 2D block (using DRM). We are moving to LabWC from Wayfire as the Wayland compositor, it just works better. So moving windows about etc is all accelerated.
In X11, there is less HW acceleration (but not none) as X11 does not really work that well with HW acceleration. All our dev work is on DRM/KMS, MESA and Wayland nowadays as it simply works better with the HW.
You need the right packages installed to take advantage of that.
The only thing on Pi 5 that is no longer HW accelerated is H264 decode - this is done entirely in software as it's now faster and more featureful than the HW H264 decoder on the Piu4 and earlier.
Statistics: Posted by jamesh — Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:25 am