That was the case but the VC4 instruction set is open/documented and there is a Mesa driver worked on to REPLACE the closed binary driver which is only availabl

That was the case but the VC4 instruction set is open/documented and there is a Mesa driver worked on to REPLACE the closed binary driver which is only available for 32-bit. When you use the Mesa VC4 driver you can also compile the whole user space for 64 bit including OpenGL ES support in a even newer version then the closed source one. (Supporting user kernels etc.) You can find some info about that here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_VC4 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_VC4 Some side notes: Mesa is quite hungry in performance and memory to compile shaders (to VC4 instructions), way more then the closed driver requires, thats why older versions of the Pi with less powerfull ARM cores couldn't really use this approach. Source: I used to write custom user shaders in VC4 assembly to run on all Pis because the closed binary didn't offer OpenCL.