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

Posted by Unknown on from the windows-now-10%-wobblier dept.

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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  1. nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > 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 :-)

    1. Re:nice by Kjella · · Score: 3, Informative

      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...

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    2. Re:nice by drinkypoo · · Score: 2

      For all the praise Intel gets for supporting open source, their end user support for older graphics chipsets really sucks.

      They don't own all of their older graphics chipsets. They are not legally permitted to support some of them properly.

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  2. What is Mesa? by balaband · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mesa

    1. Re:What is Mesa? by Eunuchswear · · Score: 2

      Mesa

      What, you mean this isn't about Black Mesa?

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  3. Pretty Good by tuppe666 · · Score: 2

    *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.