[Bug 1800429] Review Request - box86

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1800429



--- Comment #7 from Raphael Groner <projects.rg@xxxxxxxx> ---
Copied over from bug #1788327 (rewiew GL4ES):

(In reply to Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) from comment #10)
> (In reply to Raphael Groner from comment #3)
> > Thanks for the hints. I'll continue asap due to limited time.
> > 
> > This request is mainly a preparation to give to the emulator box86 a chance
> > and to get into Fedora with packaging:
> > "Most x86 Games need OpenGL, so on ARM platforms, a solution like gl4es is
> > probably needed."
> > https://ameridroid.com/blogs/ameriblogs/how-to-run-x86-linux-applications-on-
> > arm-linux-with-box86
> 
> As Fedora is concerned, arm (and aarch64) FLOSS drivers are using mesa and
> plain libGL already.
> 
> The only use case where this would be useful would be the PI downstream
> driver (not provided by Fedora) or Mali drivers (not provided by Fedora),
> and few others.
> So if you want box86 on arm with plain libGL and the related mesa drivers
> (vc4/v3d for PI and lima for Mali), nothing hold.
> 
> If you are interested in downstream drivers for PI, then I'm trying to
> "federate" various userspace in a dedicated rpi namespace in rpmfusion.
> The reason why it has to be dedicated is because a ffmpeg built with bcmhost
> enabled (PI downstream driver) would make the whole build PI specific. So my
> guess is that gl4es, once built with -DBCMHOST=1 would be also specific and
> not useful at all on Lima cases and others.
> 
> So that's the reason why I expect this build to be on copr. As I don't
> expect a generic build to be anything useful.
> At least can you submit a box86 review, so we can any if anything hold ?


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