Hardware Acceleration

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Why no hardware acceleration? I'm sure many people are wondering. We provide logging, audio, and network for containers on Android — via the android-log, android-audio, and android-network meson options — but no android-gpu. Why's that?

For logging, AOSP has liblog. For audio, libaaudio. For networking, standard APIs like libnetutils and libandroid_net. But for GPU? Android currently has no universal, version-independent, vendor-independent high-level API. It's just specific GPU drivers — Freedreno for some Adreno GPUs, Panfrost for some Mali GPUs. So we're stuck with the generic, compatibility-focused VirGL solution :)

Of course, we still encourage developers to propose better solutions that also play nicely with most devices :)