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Open-Source Mesa 3D Library/Drivers Now Support OpenGL 4

Posted by timothy on from the continuous-improvement dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Mesa 3D project that is the basis of the open-source Linux/BSD graphics drivers now supports OpenGL 4.0 and most of OpenGL 4.1~4.2. The OpenGL 4.0 enablement code landed in Mesa Git yesterday/today and more GL 4.1/4.2 patches are currently being reviewed for the Intel, Radeon, and Nouveau open-source GPU drivers.

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  1. Most? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not only does core Mesa support most of 4.1-4.2, they support most of 4.3-4.5. The problem is every few generations of OpenGL there is a developer intensive extension to get in. Compute Shader in 4.3 it probably the next monster they are going to get stuck at.

  2. Re: Staying 5 years behind... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mesa IS the native driver for Intel. Mesa has some software reference drivers, but it isn't supposed to be relegated to reference status only. If it was, they're doing it wrong, because reference platforms should come early, not years after the production drivers have had versions EOL with a higher level of support.