RadeonSI Gallium3D Now Exposes GLSL 4.50

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Gallium3D Now Exposes GLSL 4.50

The GLSL/OpenGL 4.50 version is now exposed by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RadeonSI-GLSL-450

[Azpegath]

\o/ One step closer! Truly exciting times!

[juno]

\o/
kudos to all the devs

[alpha_one_x86]

Well it's great work. And now? The lack for me is: performance, Open source out of the box OpenCL, vulkan, better support for ARM and exotic hardware. I still waiting about AMD geode LX graphic card modern support as KMS/DRI3, ...

[mibo]

Great job

If I understand correctly, Deus Ex would benefit from having the GL_ARB_bindless_texture OpenGL extension.
According to https://mesamatrix.net/ (see 'Other extensions') this is not yet supported by any MESA driver.
Is somebody working on this?

[Min1123]

I still waiting about AMD geode LX graphic card modern support as KMS/DRI3, ...

Geode only counts as i586, what distro/distros are you running that still support it? I thought most of them called their 32-bit x86 i386 but actually only supported down to i686 now.

[Wilfred]

Geode only counts as i586, what distro/distros are you running that still support it? I thought most of them called their 32-bit x86 i386 but actually only supported down to i686 now.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/msg00001.html

Not even debian supports it for its current development version anymore. Although current debian stable still does.

[boltronics]

There's still no shortage of work to be done outside of performance tweaks. I think everyone is eager to see work on the bindless texture extension after the recent Deus Ex release (kinda performance related since it seems the game has a slow fall-back). Same goes for disk driver shader cache, although I can't imagine we'll be seeing that any time soon since I understand it's been in progress for a very long time.

Even when that's all sorted, there's still more Vulkan work ahead, compatibility profiles to implement (I hope to be able to play Dying Light with Mesa one day), LEDs on Fury X GPUs and the like not working correctly, FreeSync support, many other extensions listed on MesaMatrix that don't look to have even been started, and various bug fixes (as my Fury X still randomly craps out - now without any error messages written to Xorg.0.log or dmesg outpout - the screen just loses signal when exiting a Wine app and doesn't come back). Lots to do to truly compete with Nvidia's proprietary driver feature set. I personally find some of this more important than more performance at this point.

[Hibbelharry]

the screen just loses signal when exiting a Wine app and doesn't come back

Wine emulates Windows Behaviour very closely these days.

[Mystro256]

Great job

If I understand correctly, Deus Ex would benefit from having the GL_ARB_bindless_texture OpenGL extension.
According to https://mesamatrix.net/ (see 'Other extensions') this is not yet supported by any MESA driver.
Is somebody working on this?

IIRC airlied was working on it, but it's safe to say he's a little distracted with RADV, and I believe he mentioned previously about the work being in limbo.