Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

While this is non-news for many Phoronix readers that are Mesa Git followers and already onto tracking Mesa 7.12-devel after using Mesa 7.11-devel for months already, for everyone else, the first release candidate of Mesa 7.11 is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTY1MA

[hax0r]

This should be a great release, a lot has been done since 7.10.

[d2kx]

Completely working power management and I'd switch to the open source stack in a heartbeat. Video acceleration would be the only thing I would really miss then, but my desktop's CPU is fast enough anyway (AMD Phenom II X4 940) and I don't watch HD videos on my notebook (AMD Fusion E-350).

[kraftman]

It will be great to see some optimizations for r300g, because even Open Arena is hardly playable.

[pingufunkybeat]

It will be great to see some optimizations for r300g, because even Open Arena is hardly playable.

r300g is comparable to Catalyst in performance now.

Has been for quite a while.

[Drago]

r300g is comparable to Catalyst in performance now.

Has been for quite a while.

Well, in the last benchmark Michael did, r300g had ~70% the speed of the blob.

[marek]

It will be great to see some optimizations for r300g, because even Open Arena is hardly playable.

There are indeed new r300g optimizations in 7.11. From the top of my head:
- faster vertex uploads (also on r600g)
- new optimized winsys that completely bypasses (doesn't use) libdrm_radeon
- new fragment shader register allocator

[fatih]

What are the minimum requirements for drm,libdrm,and co ?

[kraftman]

r300g is comparable to Catalyst in performance now.

Has been for quite a while.

Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?

[kraftman]

There are indeed new r300g optimizations in 7.11. From the top of my head:
- faster vertex uploads (also on r600g)
- new optimized winsys that completely bypasses (doesn't use) libdrm_radeon
- new fragment shader register allocator

Thanks. I will check this out when 7.11 will get into Arch stable repo.