A Load Of RadeonSI Commits To Kick Off Monday Morning

Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 16 March 2015 at 09:00 AM EDT. 3 Comments
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Marek Olšák of AMD has landed a number of improvements into mainline Mesa for the RadeonSI Gallium3D open-source graphics driver for benefiting Radeon HD 7000 series graphics processors and newer.

Marek pushed out a number of commits while among them are support for the FMA and SQRT TGSI opcodes, implementing gl_SampleMaskIn, improvements to ARB_gpu_shader5, basic code for over-rasterization, shader code for smoothing, and then line and polygon smoothing support. There's also a few other changes that made it into this latest round of Mesa Git commits a short time ago.


The latest RadeonSI Gallium3D work can be found via this Mesa Git web search.

On the kernel side, there's still been no word passed along from AMD when their new "AMDGPU" DRM kernel driver is expected to appear publicly.
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