Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features

Feature development for this quarter's Mesa 21.1 release is now over with it having been branched from main and the first release candidate issued...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-21.1-rc1-Released

[ihatemichael]

RadeonSI isn't getting much love...

[smitty3268]

RadeonSI isn't getting much love...

RadeonSI got quite a bit of optimization work, mostly targeted at old GL1 and GL2 level API that workstation apps use.

In terms of new features, it's mostly complete at this point.

[ihatemichael]

RadeonSI got quite a bit of optimization work, mostly targeted at old GL1 and GL2 level API that workstation apps use.

In terms of new features, it's mostly complete at this point.

I'm talking about open bugs: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...5B%5D=radeonsi

What good is optimization work when those bugs destroy the experience?

[Jay Who]

If you run Linux Mint, might want to hold off on trying this out - core dump on cinnamon

[smitty3268]

I'm talking about open bugs: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...5B%5D=radeonsi

What good is optimization work when those bugs destroy the experience?

You may need to be more specific then. It looks like they've closed ~100 bugs in the last 3 months, which seems ok. Are you just running into some bug in particular that you're complaining about? Or is it a general complaint that having any bugs at all is unacceptable?

[ihatemichael]

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Or is it a general complaint that having any bugs at all is unacceptable?

No, this would be irrational.