Enlightenment's EFL 1.12 Alpha Has Evas GL-DRM Engine, OpenGL ES 1.1 Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 23 October 2014 at 03:05 PM EDT. 3 Comments
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The first alpha release for the 1.12 version of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) was released this week.

EFL 1.12 Alpha 1 has some notable changes including the addition of the gl-drm engine for allowing OpenGL directly over Enlightenment's DRM back-end, support from reading the screen geometry with the ecore-drm backend, support for client-side rotation in Evas GL, and support for OpenGL ES 1.1 within Evas GL.

EFL 1.12 Alpha 1 also has many fixes, including changes that affect the X11 and Wayland support on Linux.

More details on EFL 1.12 Alpha 1 can be found via the change-log.
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