Homebrew Question Is hardware acceleration coming to switch homebrew?

[The0919]

Is anyone working on something like OpenGL or Vulkan that will be usable for homebrew? I know Lakka has it so its not impossible, but I think if it gets implemented it will be a huge step forward for homebrew.

 

[Deleted-442439]

It is being worked on.

 

[natinusala]

Is it though ? Last info I got was Armada having something working-ish then he left for personnal reasons / not enough time. Did somebody ever continue his work ?

 

[Deleted-442439]

Is it though ? Last info I got was Armada having something working-ish then he left for personnal reasons / not enough time. Did somebody ever continue his work ?

I keep hearing that it is, Armada posted his work before leaving, but honestly not seen much concrete going on?

 

[natinusala]

Well that was just the last info I had, didn't say it was up to date

 

[catlover007]

I don't know in which state his work is exactly, but it looks like he managed to get OpenGL and Vulkan to some degree running on the Switch. I wanted to compile and test it, but it seems like it requires Linux and I have only 15 GB left on my HDD so not enough for a linux partition or a VM, so I couldn't test it.
https://github.com/Armada651/mesa , https://github.com/Armada651/libdrm_nouveau and https://github.com/Armada651/libnx/tree/gpu
Also fincs(author of citro3d) is also working on it https://github.com/devkitPro/mesa I guess somewhen it will be released and downloadable via pacman

 

[natinusala]

He was able to have glxgears run but it was glitchy on some FW versions, like when you long pressed HOME for instance.