SWR Articles & Reviews |
| LLVMpipe vs. OpenSWR Software Rendering On A 40 Core / 80 Thread Tyan Server | Display Drivers | 2017-08-27 |
| Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Is Speeding Up | Display Drivers | 2011-01-17 |
| Encore 802.11n PCI Wireless Adapter | Peripherals | 2010-01-08 |
| Gigabyte AirCruiser GN-WI06N-RH | Peripherals | 2008-04-30 |
| Zenwalk Live 5.0 | Operating Systems | 2008-03-30 |
| Gigabyte AirCruiser N300 802.11n | Peripherals | 2008-03-26 |
| VectorLinux v5.1 Live RC3 | Operating Systems | 2006-04-25 |
| Ark Linux v2005.2 | Operating Systems | 2005-12-11 |
SWR Linux & Open-Source News |
| Mesa 24.1 Now Builds Zink By Default, Also Building D3D12 Driver By Default On Windows | Mesa | 2024-02-23 |
| Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver | Hardware | 2024-01-21 |
| Phoronix.com Turns 19 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware, Open-Source News | Phoronix | 2023-06-05 |
| Linux VGEM Driver Rewritten In Rust Sent Out For Review | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-21 |
| Rusticl Support For AMD RadeonSI Driver Being Worked On | Mesa | 2022-09-26 |
| Intel Gallium3D "Iris" Driver Changes Merged For Rusticl's OpenCL 3.0 | Intel | 2022-09-22 |
| Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source Intel & AMD Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2022-03-09 |
| LLVMpipe Patches Pending For Faster Vertex/Fragment Processing | Mesa | 2022-02-18 |
| Mesa 22.0-rc1 Released With Many Radeon & Intel Linux GPU Driver Features, Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-02-02 |
| Mesa's "Copper" Is A Step Closer To Being Brazed | Mesa | 2022-01-14 |
| Mesa 21.3.3 Released With Fixes For Old ATI R300~R500 GPUs, RADV Fixes Too | Mesa | 2021-12-29 |
| Intel's SWR Removed From Mainline Mesa, More Classic Code Cleaning Continues | Mesa | 2021-12-07 |
| Mesa 21.0 Has Finally Killed The Classic "SWRAST" Software Rasterizer | Mesa | 2020-12-31 |
| Classic OSMesa Retires In Mesa 21.0 As The Worst Of The Software Rendering Paths | Mesa | 2020-12-11 |
| Linux 5.10-rc4 Released But The Kernel Hasn't Calmed Down Yet | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-15 |
| Mesa 20.1.8 Released While Waiting For Mesa 20.2 | Mesa | 2020-09-17 |
| Intel To Release OSPray Studio Scene Graph Application Soon As Part Of oneAPI | Intel | 2020-08-24 |
| Why VALLIUM Is Just For Software-Based Vulkan & Not GPU Hardware Drivers | Vulkan | 2020-08-20 |
| Mesa "Vallium" - Software/CPU-Based Vulkan Based On LLVMpipe | Vulkan | 2020-04-24 |
| Mesa Developers Discussing Again Whether To Fork Or Drop Non-Gallium3D Drivers | Mesa | 2020-03-30 |
| Intel Working On OpenGL 4.x Support For Their OpenSWR Software Rasterizer In Mesa | Intel | 2020-03-24 |
| LoadLibrary: Support For Loading Windows DLLs On Linux | Microsoft | 2020-03-11 |
| LLVMpipe Tessellation Shader Support Is Now Working - Runs Unigine Heaven | Mesa | 2020-02-28 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter See Changes For Tracking Software Rendering, VNC To Toggle Animations | GNOME | 2020-02-20 |
| Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support | Intel | 2020-01-24 |
| Gallium3D's Software Rasterizers Are Close To Having OpenGL Tessellation Support | Mesa | 2019-12-30 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Driver Now Uses NIR By Default | Mesa | 2019-12-21 |
| Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code | Intel | 2019-12-11 |
| Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To Build By Default | Mesa | 2019-12-07 |
| XWayland Receive An EGL-Based GLX Provider, Helping Various Games On Linux | X.Org | 2019-05-24 |
| Collabora's Work On KMS_SWRAST For Android Graphics Fallback | Mesa | 2018-08-02 |
| LLVM Is Playing A Big Role With Vulkan/SPIR-V Compilers | LLVM | 2018-04-19 |
| Mesa 17.3.7 Released With A Bunch Of Fixes | Mesa | 2018-03-21 |
| OpenSWR Rasterizer Improvements Land Ahead Of Mesa 18.0 | Intel | 2018-01-20 |
| Mesa 17.3.3 Released With RADV & ANV Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2018-01-19 |
| Linux Graphics Trends Over The Past Five Years | Hardware | 2018-01-13 |
| The Linux Graphics Stack Gets Further Meson-ized: Now With Libdrm Support | Mesa | 2018-01-12 |
| Even With An Intel Core i9 7980XE, LLVMpipe Is Still Slow | Mesa | 2018-01-02 |
| AMD Queues More AMDKFD HSA Kernel Driver Changes For Linux 4.16 | AMD | 2017-12-25 |
| Mesa 17.2.3 Offers Vulkan Fixes, Gallium3D Updates | Mesa | 2017-10-19 |
| LLVMpipe & OpenSWR OpenGL Riding Off Threadripper | AMD | 2017-08-30 |
| Mesa 17.1.7 Being Prepped For Release | Mesa | 2017-08-19 |
| Mesa Patches For Two Of The Fairly Trivial OpenGL 4.6 Patches | Mesa | 2017-08-08 |
| Mesa 17.1.5 Brings More Fixes To Open-Source GPU Driver Users | Mesa | 2017-07-14 |
| Mesa 17.1.3 Released | Mesa | 2017-06-19 |
| Mesa Developers Discuss Branching Off Old Drivers, Including R300g & i915 | Mesa | 2017-05-26 |
| MSAA Support Added To The OpenSWR Software Rasterizer | Intel | 2017-04-15 |
| SWR Software Rasterizer Now Supports Geometry Shaders | Intel | 2017-03-05 |
| A Student Developer Wants To Write A Software Implementation Of Vulkan For Mesa | Mesa | 2017-02-11 |
| Mesa Hit OpenGL 4.5, Received Vulkan Drivers, Improved Performance & More In 2016 | Mesa | 2016-12-27 |
| Mesa 12.0.5 Released, End Of Road For Mesa 12 | Mesa | 2016-12-05 |
| Ilia Mirkin Takes To Hacking On SWR Gallium3D, Fixes ~600 Piglit Bugs | Mesa | 2016-11-14 |
| The Blocker Bugs So Far For Mesa 13.0 | Mesa | 2016-10-29 |
| RadeonSI Gets Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension: ARB_cull_distance | Mesa | 2016-08-30 |
| Google Opens Up High-Performance Software Graphics Rasterizer | Google | 2016-06-29 |
| LTO'ing Mesa Is Getting Discussed For Performance & Binary Size Reasons | Mesa | 2016-05-31 |
| The 12 Big New Features Of Mesa 12.0 | Mesa | 2016-05-31 |
| The State Of The SWR Software Rasterizer In Mesa | Mesa | 2016-05-22 |
| Ndiswrapper 1.60 Released | Hardware | 2016-05-03 |
| AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Now Incredibly Close To OpenGL 4.3! | Radeon | 2016-04-12 |
| OpenSWR Improvements Land In Mesa | Mesa | 2016-03-25 |
| GLVND GLX Support Being Worked On For The X.Org Server | X.Org | 2016-03-24 |
| OpenSWR High Performance Software Rasterizer Lands In Mesa | Mesa | 2016-03-02 |
| OpenSWR High-Performance Software Rasterizer Revised For Mesa | Intel | 2016-02-17 |
| Google Chrome May Soon Support The LLVMpipe Driver | Google | 2016-01-12 |
| The Mesmerizing Mesa Milestones Of 2015 | Mesa | 2015-12-27 |
| Intel Is Making A High-Performance Software Rasterizer For Mesa | Mesa | 2015-10-20 |
| Linux Turns 24 Years Old Today | Linux Kernel | 2015-08-25 |
| Wayland On Mesa Now Supports DRI_PRIME, Render Nodes | Wayland | 2015-05-11 |
| Mesa 10.4 Is Delayed A Few Days As It's Busted On Older GPUs | Mesa | 2014-12-07 |
| Wayland Live CD ISOs Updated | Wayland | 2014-11-15 |
| The New Features Of Mesa 10.3 | Mesa | 2014-08-25 |
| Linux Turns 23 Years Old Today | Linux Kernel | 2014-08-25 |
| After OpenGL 4.5, The Mesa OpenGL 4 Support Matrix | Mesa | 2014-08-12 |
| BPTC Texture Compression Support Lands In Mesa | Mesa | 2014-08-12 |
| Intel Adds BPTC Texture Compression To Their Mesa Driver | Intel | 2014-07-22 |
| GPU Software Fallbacks: What's Better? | Mesa | 2014-06-22 |
| Gallium3D "Mega Drivers" Might Be Ready For Merging In The Next Month | Mesa | 2014-06-18 |
| Broadcom VC4 Work Well Underway On DRM, Gallium3D Support Planned | Mesa | 2014-06-18 |
| Mesa's IR Might Get Changed Around Amid Discussions | Mesa | 2014-05-29 |
| GNOME Aims To Get Mutter-Wayland Running With LLVMpipe | Wayland | 2014-04-12 |
| GLX_MESA_query_renderer Support Comes To All Drivers | Mesa | 2014-02-28 |
| Ubuntu Will Not Enable Open-Source VDPAU Support | Ubuntu | 2014-02-18 |
| NDISwrapper 1.59 Now Supports Modern Kernels | Hardware | 2013-11-28 |
| The State Of OpenGL 3.x, 4.x Extensions In Mesa | Mesa | 2013-10-07 |
| Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Is Good Enough For Teaching | Mesa | 2013-09-28 |
| The State Of OpenGL 3.x/4.x Features In Mesa 9.2 | Mesa | 2013-08-22 |
| The State Of OpenGL 3/4 Support In Mesa/Gallium3D | Mesa | 2013-03-22 |
| LLVMpipe Picks Up Support For New GL Extensions | Mesa | 2013-02-25 |
| NDISwrapper 1.58 Now Runs On Newer Kernels | Linux Kernel | 2013-02-20 |
| IBM's Porting Gallium3D LLVMpipe To PowerPC | Mesa | 2013-02-11 |
| R600 Gallium3D Getting Close On OpenGL 3.3 Support | AMD | 2013-01-13 |
| FFmpeg 1.1 Brings New Support, Encoders/Decoders | Multimedia | 2013-01-07 |
| KDE Desktop Won't Force You To Use LLVMpipe | KDE | 2012-10-09 |
| OpenGL 4.3 Support Is A Ways Out In Mesa | Mesa | 2012-08-06 |
| Haiku Looks To Leverage More Of Mesa | Mesa | 2012-07-29 |
| The OpenGL Support State For Mesa 8.1 | Mesa | 2012-07-12 |
| Ubuntu 12.10 To Further Binary Blob Handling | Ubuntu | 2012-05-11 |
| FFmpeg Moves Closer To 1.0 Release | Multimedia | 2011-12-11 |
| GNOME Shell Works Without GPU Driver Support | GNOME | 2011-11-06 |
| The Linux GPU Driver Limitations For Opera 12 | Free Software | 2011-10-13 |
| Google Brings GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap To Software | Google | 2011-08-30 |
| What Mesa Has Left With OpenGL 3, OpenGL 4 | Mesa | 2011-08-11 |
| Mesa's OpenGL 3.0 TODO List Is Becoming Smaller | Mesa | 2011-06-30 |
| Nouveau Gallium3D, LLVMpipe In Ubuntu 11.10? | X.Org | 2011-05-12 |
| Ubuntu 11.04 Doesn't Play With Nouveau Gallium3D | Ubuntu | 2011-04-21 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Is Used In Fedora 15 | Fedora | 2011-03-10 |
| Mesa Can Now Be Smaller, Build Faster | Mesa | 2011-02-25 |
| LLVMpipe May Be A Bit Closer To Running GNOME Shell | GNOME | 2010-05-23 |
| Mesa 7.4.3 Brings A Handful Of Fixes | Mesa | 2009-06-19 |
| A $15 USB 802.11g WiFi Adapter For Linux | Hardware | 2008-10-24 |
| Knoppix 5.3.1 LiveDVD Released | Operating Systems | 2008-03-30 |
| New NDISwrapper 1.49 Release | Free Software | 2007-10-28 |
| Broadcom BCM4306 + FC5 | Hardware | 2006-04-16 |
