Google Developers Improve Mesa's Android EGL Support

Google engineers working on Android have been experimenting with using Mesa on Android.

Android-x86 has long made use of Mesa while it's not clear what the new upstream Android interest in Mesa comes down to. Tomasz Figa, a kernel/driver developer at Google, wrote in his Mesa mailing list patch series, "This series is a collection of various fixes and extensions we came up with during our attempt to use Mesa for Android."

This Android EGL patch series for Mesa includes a number of code fixes along with new features. The Android EGL tests were done on the i965 driver with Broadwell as well as Gallium Softpipe in conjunction with "an internal build of Android, based on gralloc backed by a DRM render node and sharing buffers by PRIME FDs."

It will be interesting to see what else Google does to the Android graphics stack, especially with Kristian Høgsberg having just joined the company.