[HN Gopher] You can't update Android's GPU drivers like on your PC
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       You can't update Android's GPU drivers like on your PC
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-02-25 17:41 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.esper.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.esper.io)
        
       | corysama wrote:
       | This is a huge PITA for mobile 3D game developers. Google would
       | announce a shiny new Vulkan feature and I'd set a calendar event
       | for 4 years in the future to remind me to check if 75% of the
       | user base had it available yet.
        
         | gruez wrote:
         | How does the equivalent work for PCs? Is the ecosystem just
         | more mature, so that there aren't that many shiny new features?
         | Do GPU vendors ship polyfills for older hardware?
        
           | dragontamer wrote:
           | Windows DirectX is well documented.
           | 
           | DirectX11 hardware does X/Y/Z. When people buy GPUs, they can
           | see which DirectX version it supports, be it DX9, DX10, DX11,
           | or DX12.
        
       | fsflover wrote:
       | This is another reason to support GNU/Linux phones (Librem 5 and
       | Pinephone) based on free and open source drivers, owned by the
       | user, not by Google or hardware manufacturer.
        
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