Lossless Compression Brings Possible Speedups To Skylake Linux Mesa Driver

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Lossless Compression Brings Possible Speedups To Skylake Linux Mesa Driver

08 February 2016, 03:30 PM

Phoronix: Lossless Compression Brings Possible Speedups To Skylake Linux Mesa Driver

Topi Pohjolainen of Intel posted a set of 23 patches today for providing compression of single-sampled color surfaces / lossless compression within the Intel Mesa driver for Skylake "Gen9" and newer...

Lossless Compression Brings Possible Speedups To Skylake Linux Mesa Driver - Phoronix

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08 February 2016, 04:20 PM

Michael, it would probably be good to test this in a couple weeks once it gets into Mesa.

I think Skylake performance the last time you tested was very far behind what the proprietary windows drivers were capable of.
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