Mesa 18.3-RC5 Released As The Stable Release Looms

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 18.3-RC5 Released As The Stable Release Looms

Mesa 18.3 release manager Emil Velikov announced the release of Mesa 18.3-RC5 on Thursday as this cycle enters overtime due to an active blocker bug...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-18.3-RC5-Released

[tildearrow]

Typo:

so once this ANV driver deadlock isuse is resolved,

Redundancy:

causing a user pointer "userptr" deadlock

One more thing:

leaks in the AMDGPU winsys,

So this release has leaks in the winsys as a feature.

You should sleep...

[TemplarGR]

Every Mesa release ends up getting delayed by intel blocker bugs... This happened for the previous release too. Thanks intel...

[Charlie68]

In Tumbleweed we are stuck at Mesa 18.1.7 because of failures in the tests. We hope this version solves the problems ....

[Marc Driftmeyer]

100% of what is listed for 18.3 is useless outside of platform hardware inclusion references or RADV which if you don't play games that leverages Vulkan is also adding nothing to the present desktop environment in Linux and/or its applications space.

Is Vulkan being used to accelerate the general application space at a bare metal approach ala Metal 2 API does system-wide in macOS? No.

Seriously, if it's all just about games then bfd.

This list : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-18.3-Features

shows a bunch of specialized improvements for specific hardware and kudos for that, but outside of EGL [which again if it's not Vulkan system-wide, bfd] how is Mesa 18.3 this big deal?

[M@GOid]

100% of what is listed for 18.3 is useless outside of platform hardware inclusion references or RADV which if you don't play games that leverages Vulkan is also adding nothing to the present desktop environment in Linux and/or its applications space.

Is Vulkan being used to accelerate the general application space at a bare metal approach ala Metal 2 API does system-wide in macOS? No.

Seriously, if it's all just about games then bfd.

This list : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-18.3-Features

shows a bunch of specialized improvements for specific hardware and kudos for that, but outside of EGL [which again if it's not Vulkan system-wide, bfd] how is Mesa 18.3 this big deal?

You need to play some games and relax man...

[FireBurn]

100% of what is listed for 18.3 is useless outside of platform hardware inclusion references or RADV which if you don't play games that leverages Vulkan is also adding nothing to the present desktop environment in Linux and/or its applications space.

Is Vulkan being used to accelerate the general application space at a bare metal approach ala Metal 2 API does system-wide in macOS? No.

Seriously, if it's all just about games then bfd.

This list : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-18.3-Features

shows a bunch of specialized improvements for specific hardware and kudos for that, but outside of EGL [which again if it's not Vulkan system-wide, bfd] how is Mesa 18.3 this big deal?

Next gen desktops will be using Vulkan, it's already wired into Mutter for Gnome 4 and I'm sure Kwin won't be far behind - all the optimisations being worked on for games at the moments will eventually benefit everything that uses Vulkan - which will be more or less everything in the next decade

[mibo]

In Tumbleweed we are stuck at Mesa 18.1.7 because of failures in the tests. We hope this version solves the problems ....

Do you know what the problems are?
I was wondering why no MESA update is rolling in...

[Charlie68]

Do you know what the problems are?
I was wondering why no MESA update is rolling in...

I can not tell you exactly what the problems are, I should inform, what I know is that the tests fail, so it is not sent until the upstream corrections arrive.
EDIT.
In the Dominique report :
"""Changes that are currently being staged and tested:

* glibc 2.28, Python 3.7, openssl 1.1.1: the three all interdepend on
each other and cause a bunch of new failures – See Staging:C
* LLVM7 / Mesa 18.2.x (rust fails to build with LLVM7)
* Installer redesign: the sidebar is coming back (showing where in
the installation workflow one is currently)
* PostgreSQL 11
* KDE Plasma 5.14.4"""

[mibo]

Thanks.
I found an old link: http://tumbleweed.boombatower.com/

So, it seems tumbleweed will skip MESA 18.2 completely and go on with 18.3