Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions

A number of months have passed since having anything new to report on the progress of the LLVMpipe software driver, but David Airlie now has landed a number of improvements to this LLVM-leveraging "soft" OpenGL driver for Mesa 19.3...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVMpipe-Mesa-19.3-Shader-Image

[xxmitsu]

I think the goal here is OpenGL ES 3.1 rather than Desktop GL 4.x

[schmidtbag]

I think the goal here is OpenGL ES 3.1 rather than Desktop GL 4.x

Yes, this makes more sense.
Regardless - nice to see. This could be helpful to some embedded devices with crappy/limited GPU drivers.

[pal666]

This could be helpful to some embedded devices with crappy/limited GPU drivers.

i thought for a second about novideo, then thought nouveau would be natural choice there. but it turns out llvmpipe is more capable than nouveau for older chips