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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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> The release won't feature a few things: the Intel Sandybridge driver still does not support OpenGL 3.3
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
$ glxinfo | grep "shading language"
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
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
Mesa
Seems that whenever a new build comes out I re-attempt to build Mesa from scratch. I always run into dependency/compiler problems.
libexpat-dev, x11proto-present-dev, x11-proto-dri3-dev dri3, llvm, libxml2-dev.
I keep searching for pre-built libaries/dlls on Windows/Linux/Mac, but they seem elusive. Sometimes I need a stable software graphics driver that will run OGL 3+ on older hardware (just for dev sake).
but hey, I'm sorta lazy, I'll wait for the debian stable release :)
hmm CAPTCHA: deterred
Progress is being made toward OpenGL 4 support,
*golf clap* How it must feel to be worse than even Apple at supporting OpenGL 4.x versions.
*golf clap* How it must feel to be worse than even Apple at supporting OpenGL 4.x versions.
To be fair, blissfully ignorant, as I am incredibly happy with Intel graphics on linux. I would care if I was interested in the BSD License, with Apple failing to follow the spirit of the license...but then here is the real truth.
Here is back last year when Linux outperformed Apple http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
Here it is this year still performing faster on Apple hardware http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p... ,,,in the case of one 10year old engine 20 times faster.
Your troll comment only serves to exposes weak software...and its "short arms...deep pockets" open source mentality on its overpriced hardware...it is pretty though.