Mesa 10.2 Will Feature Better Adreno Driver, OpenMAX, Cherryview Support

Via Phoronix comes news that Mesa 10.2 will be released in a few days with several interesting new features. Highlights include OpenGL 2.1 support for Freedreno (the driver for the Qualcomm graphics chips), video encoding and decoding on GCN Radeons using the new OpenMAX state tracker, and initial support for Intel's upcoming Cherryview Atom SoC. Progress is being made toward OpenGL 4 support, and the llvmpipe software rasterizer finally supports OpenGL 3.2. The release won't feature a few things: the Intel Sandybridge driver still does not support OpenGL 3.3, the R9 290 Radeons are still not working (despite claims by AMD a couple of years ago that cards starting with the Radeon 8000 series would be supported by the Free Software driver at hardware release time), and OpenCL support is still experimental.

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What is Mesa?

[balaband]

Mesa

Re:nice

[Kjella]

So, 3 year old laptop's gfx driver won't support Shader Model 4.1 available on Windows's driver since day-1?
Well, perhaps next year :-)

Their OpenGL support on Windows is the same, so I guess your complaint is Linux doesn't have DirectX...