OpenGL Direct State Access Materializing In Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenGL Direct State Access Materializing In Mesa

While Mesa still doesn't officially support the OpenGL 4.0 specification, the Direct State Access (DSA) extension of OpenGL 4.5 has been worked on quite a bit so far and the Mesa implementation is nearly done...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-OpenGL-4.5-DSA

[Kemosabe]

Hurry hurry hurry!

[justmy2cents]

not to be naysayer here, but seeing all parts started and only 2 DONE, i would hold my horses before claiming nearly done. the official GL 4.0 kryptonite "aka. tessellation" has been in that state for ages and it doesn't seem like it will ever pass that mark

p.s. i wish i am wrong

[Kemosabe]

Since mid 2014 some particular Linux news author reports mesa's 4.0 and probably 4.2 support is "imminent". . .

And today there is no way around to properitary drivers: OpenCL still a mess, games start to require ogl 4+:
Metro Redux series, X:Rebirth, Bioshock - Infinite.
Vulkan will take another 10 years

[lorenzoz]

not to be naysayer here, but seeing all parts started and only 2 DONE, i would hold my horses before claiming nearly done. the official GL 4.0 kryptonite "aka. tessellation" has been in that state for ages and it doesn't seem like it will ever pass that mark

p.s. i wish i am wrong

If you look in mesa-dev mailing list almost every task of Martin Peres is done, and also the task of Fredrik H?glund.
Patches are going to be reviewed, also changes to GL3.txt

[log0]

If you look in mesa-dev mailing list almost every task of Martin Peres is done, and also the task of Fredrik H?glund.
Patches are going to be reviewed, also changes to GL3.txt

Yeah, the DSA stuff is about exposing already existing functionality, not comparable to tessellation or subroutines.

[Kayden]

not to be naysayer here, but seeing all parts started and only 2 DONE, i would hold my horses before claiming nearly done. the official GL 4.0 kryptonite "aka. tessellation" has been in that state for ages and it doesn't seem like it will ever pass that mark

p.s. i wish i am wrong

Chris actually has tessellation mostly done - you can already run a ton of the tests. As I understand it, we basically just need to fix some lingering GPU hangs, port it to Broadwell, and review all the patches.

DSA is mostly a lot of typing - it's tons of new API, but just exposing things we already do in a slightly different way.

[adila01]

Chris actually has tessellation mostly done - you can already run a ton of the tests. As I understand it, we basically just need to fix some lingering GPU hangs, port it to Broadwell, and review all the patches.

DSA is mostly a lot of typing - it's tons of new API, but just exposing things we already do in a slightly different way.

You guys are awesome . Will you guys look to tackle the GL_ARB_shader_subroutine next?

[justmy2cents]

Chris actually has tessellation mostly done - you can already run a ton of the tests. As I understand it, we basically just need to fix some lingering GPU hangs, port it to Broadwell, and review all the patches.

DSA is mostly a lot of typing - it's tons of new API, but just exposing things we already do in a slightly different way.

i'm glad i'm wrong.

[nanonyme]

Chris actually has tessellation mostly done - you can already run a ton of the tests. As I understand it, we basically just need to fix some lingering GPU hangs, port it to Broadwell, and review all the patches.

DSA is mostly a lot of typing - it's tons of new API, but just exposing things we already do in a slightly different way.

Sounds like an excellent feature to reserve for people that are new to the project to me