Radeon RADV Lands Emulated ETC2 Support For Improving Android Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon RADV Lands Emulated ETC2 Support For Improving Android Support

While the ETC2 texture compression standard is royalty-free and popular for OpenGL / GLES / Vulkan use, recent AMD Radeon GPUs and APUs have removed their native support for this alternative to the likes of ASTC and S3TC. But now in Mesa 22.0 there is emulated ETC2 support for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver to in turn improve this open-source driver's Android support...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Lands-Emulated-ETC2

[skeevy420]

Q: Did anyone else notice the mess up in that photo?

A: The bottom quality test. Look at where the square is showing the selection and look at the selected text in the comparison.

Here's what they edited to make that:

[Danny3]

Could this help in any way the Android-x86, Anbox, Waydroid projects ?

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Outside of Android, the RADV emualted ETC2 support is

[baka0815]

Q: Did anyone else notice the mess up in that photo?

A: The bottom quality test. Look at where the square is showing the selection and look at the selected text in the comparison.

Here's what they edited to make that:

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