The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides

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Phoronix: The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides

While Mesa 18.0 was just released a little over one month ago, Mesa 18.1 is already gearing up for release this month after going through two release candidates already. Here's a look at the new features of this second quarter 2018 Mesa 3D update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-18.1-Features

[nomadewolf]

This is one of those projects that should be merged earlier.
Hopefully with the advent of Snap/Flatpak Apps, that will free up resources for distros to focus on this kind of projects.

[StarterX4]

Intel BayTrail still on OpenGL 3.3

[oibaf]

Also tegra driver is available in 18.1.

[caligula]

Intel BayTrail still on OpenGL 3.3

The hardware has been a total failure. I wouldn't worry too much about GPU support when the power saving hangs.

[SpyroRyder]

This is one of those projects that should be merged earlier.
Hopefully with the advent of Snap/Flatpak Apps, that will free up resources for distros to focus on this kind of projects.

Doubt that snap and flatpak will have an impact on the issues of these things not making it into releases as the way most distros do releases stop that from happening. It would need a shift to a different release model, like rolling release, which shouldn't be impacted by how many end-user programs have to be built.

[Gusar]

Intel BayTrail still on OpenGL 3.3

It's at 4.2 (could be 4.3 if Intel fixed and activated stencil texturing, could be 4.4 or possibly 4.5 if Intel emulated query_buffer_object with a compute shader):

$ glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086)
    Device: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2 (0xf31)
    Version: 18.1.0
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 1536MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.2
    Max compat profile version: 3.0
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.2 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.1.0-rc3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 18.1.0-rc3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 18.1.0-rc3
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00