BROADCOM VC4 GRAPHICS DRIVER(9)

🌸 Broadcom VC4 Graphics Driver 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Broadcom VC4 Graphics Driver page from the Kernel API Manual 💅 this is the Raspberry Pi graphics situation, and it's lowkey iconic.

The Broadcom VideoCore 4 (the one present in the Raspberry Pi 🍓) contains an OpenGL ES 2.0-compatible 3D engine called V3D, plus a highly configurable display output pipeline that supports HDMI, DSI, DPI, and Composite TV output. Slay.

The 3D engine also has an interface for submitting arbitrary compute shader-style jobs using the same shader processor as is used for vertex and fragment shaders in GLES 2.0. Cute, right?

But bestie, plot twist 😭 given that the hardware isn't able to expose any standard interfaces like OpenGL compute shaders or OpenCL, it isn't supported by this driver. Not me finding out the hard way 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c — go peek at the source, bestie 👀

source/version: ./drivers/gpu/drm/vc4 · date: October 2026 · page label: Broadcom VC4...phics Driver(9) — okay bye, mwah 💖