Run Blender 2.8+ on Arm64 Panfrost

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@spikerguy Thank You

@Pak0st Thanks for your clear explanation.

@Pak0st

Blender is working on Vulkan implementation at least for EEVEE. Unlike the geometry shaders, we know for sure Vulkan will come to Panfrost When this will happen for both projects - we don’t know for now.

This is something interesting to wait, a vulkan driver for Panfrost. That would be super awesome…!

@Pak0st

This leaves you only with software rendering for Blender 2.8+ and as you have noticed, the performance is… lacking to say the least.

I thought that maybe there is a work around with good performance. Because last time I used blender using LLVMPipe, although the performance is laggy, but I managed to render an image using EEVEE renderer in shader mode quite fast.

@Pak0st

Actually usable option, is the blender-2.7-es2 package.

Yes, I did and the performance is surprisingly pretty good, but I miss EEVEE

@Pak0st

(if it has broken again - do ping me to find a fix)

Have you checked my post about installing blender 2.79 via chroot debian buster? Use this method and your blender 2.79 will never break, but I don’t know how to make it using the es2? It is actually a bonus for my step by step on compiling Box86 on Arm64 devices.

Here’s my Box86 topic:

How To Install Box86 on Manjaro Arm64

Good News, Finally I am successfully compiled the Box86 on Arm64 without using Qemu (No Need for Binfmt_misc compiled in your Kernel). The performance is quite promising as I am successfully installed Sketchup 7.1 and Sketchup 8 with very good graphic performance despite of using LLVM Pipe. At the moment I did this in Armbian, but in Theory Manjaro should also work. And The Good News is that compiling Box86 in Aarch64 is quite easy compared to compiling “Qemu-User-Static” and “Hangover”, yet t…

Here’s how to install Blender 2.79 on chroot debian (at the bottom section):

Install Box86 on Arm64