GPU acceleration in Chromium container on Torizon OS iMX8M-Plus

vix · November 17, 2023, 3:45pm

I can give some details that I hope can be useful to Toradex engineers.
If I’m right, Toradex installs Vivante drivers inside wayland-base-vivante container

github.com

toradex/torizon-containers/blob/fbfaf2dff1023f16b5950118388137c00114f5e0/debian-docker-images/wayland-base-vivante/Dockerfile#L32-L38


      
          RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
              libwayland-client0 \
              libwayland-server0 \
              imx-gpu-viv-wayland \
              libg2d-dpu \
              libg2d-viv \
              && apt-get clean && apt-get autoremove && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

This is done running apt-get

On the other side, foundries.io installs them with a script, wget-ting the binaries from NXP and copying them into the container
https://github.com/foundriesio/containers/blob/c53467d847d2f5860606e179be51b4dffd7d037f/0debian-base-imx8-aarch64/imx8-libs.sh#L13-L20

Based on what I see on their blog post, they have 22 fps on FishTank example witn the Mini (GPU GC7000NanoUltra) which has a GPU less performant than the GC7000UltraLite of the Plus.
And, as I show on this topic the Toradex Chromium container get only 14 fps on the same FishTank example on the Plus.

I’m going to do other tests, but maybe this is a direction to look into
Since foundries.io is one of the Toradex partners, is it possible for Toradex to investigate their way to handle this topic?