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fix(rockchip-rk3588): Enable mesa-vpu extension for GPU acceleration #8979

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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions config/sources/families/rockchip-rk3588.conf
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function extension_prepare_config__enable_mesa_vpu() {
# Auto-enable mesa-vpu for RK3588 GPU acceleration
enable_extension "mesa-vpu"
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Hasn't it already been enabled in some pre-built images? https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/f31d7b29592e9d0ba01ea2d146e1a58b16a01f7a/userpatches/targets-release-standard-support.yaml#L108

Doing this will disable the Mali kernel driver, but there are also people who don't use Panthor, but instead use libmali for games and computing.

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I thought about that myself but if you look at the extension, it is pretty locked down already. Like minimal images will not be affected at all.
Overall I am not a fan of squeezing this in by default but on the other hand when using a desktop the OOB experience will be better. It is up to the user to switch to libmali or whatever. Some manuals out there like the one from jellyfin would need adjustment to either disable panthor overlay or use minimal image at start.

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I have no problem enabling this extension only for desktop image builds. For server or minimized images, I'd rather handle it myself.

Yes. The Jellyfin documentation may need updating to tell users who need HDR transcoding to disable the panthor-gpu overlay.

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# Additional CFLAGS were previously needed to disable certain errors when building vendor U-Boot.
# This is now fixed in Radxa U-Boot sources, but left here (commented out) for reference in case new errors appear in the future.

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