Mesa Receives Some OpenGL 3 Love

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa Receives Some OpenGL 3 Love

OpenGL 3.0 was announced in the summer of 2007 and since then we have seen the subsequent releases of the 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 specifications. Just last week there was even the release of OpenGL 4.0. The proprietary Linux graphics drivers have picked up support for these latest industry standard specifications, but it hasn't been smooth sailing in the open-source world...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODA4Mw

[Smorg]

Good work guys, keep it up.

[MisterIO]

Wasn't OpenGL 3(at least part of it) supposed to be patent-encumbered?

[whizse]

I don't know if any of the patented bits are being implemented yet, but the plan is to try and work around it:
http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2009...OpenGL3andMesa

[waucka]

It is disgusting that we have to work around or license patents just to be compatible with our competitors. This is an excellent example of why the EU is right to continue to reject software patents.

[FireBurn]

I'm pretty sure Gallium doesn't have an OpenGL 2.1 state tracker. It has OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2 state trackers and a mesa state tracker but no real OpenGL state tracker so far

Do correct me if I'm wrong of course

[Remco]

Considering that Mesa implements OpenGL, and has a Gallium3D state tracker, how more real would you want it?

[FireBurn]

Considering that Mesa implements OpenGL, and has a Gallium3D state tracker, how more real would you want it?

But that isn't a real OpenGL state tracker is it? You might as well just use a mesa driver wouldn't you? I might be misunderstanding entirely

[marek]

Ah I thought Gallium was more stand alone than that.

The OpenGL (Mesa) state tracker is actually a classic Mesa driver which translates OpenGL calls into Gallium ones. (it's not said to be classic since it's rather a smart wrapper, not a device driver)

Considering that Mesa implements OpenGL, and has a Gallium3D state tracker, how more real would you want it?

Gallium3D state tracker is nonsense. Gallium3D is the overall architecture and kinda a toolbox for writing 3D drivers. Gallium can be even considered the internal driver interface which basically splits the classic driver to several more or less separate components and reuses them for acceleration of other APIs.

I've tried using the xorg state tracker before but without any luck on radong a few days ago it simply crashed X and i965g doesn't work at all either it even has the wrong name since it stopped being the modesetting driver

The Xorg state statetracker doesn't get much (if any) testing with r300g. Why would you want to use it when you have full-featured xf86-video-ati?

-Marek

[FireBurn]

The OpenGL (Mesa) state tracker is actually a classic Mesa driver which translates OpenGL calls into Gallium ones. (it's not said to be classic since it's rather a smart wrapper, not a device driver)



Gallium3D state tracker is nonsense. Gallium3D is the overall architecture and kinda a toolbox for writing 3D drivers. Gallium can be even considered the internal driver interface which basically splits the classic driver to several more or less separate components and reuses them for acceleration of other APIs.


The Xorg state statetracker doesn't get much (if any) testing with r300g. Why would you want to use it when you have full-featured xf86-video-ati?

-Marek

I wanted to test it.

Why test Gallium when I have mesa? Or test ChromiumOS when I have KDE. Or why would someone test Linux when they already have Windows or OSX?

It's fun trying new things and comparing to what you've already got