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    Phoronix: Mesa 17.3 Officially Released: Nearly OpenGL 4.6, Better Vulkan Support

    Delays pushed back the Mesa 17.3 release from November, but this quarterly update to the Mesa 3D graphics stack is now available for users...

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  • #2
    Mesa 17.3 offers nearly complete OpenGL 4.6
    @Michael

    But opengl 4.6 dont stay ready still, lack of features and conformant tests (maybe stay ready for Q1 2018?), right?

    OpenGL 4.6 stay now but on nvidia propietary drivers, 387 series (cemu use OpenGL 4.6 if stay avalaible)

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    • #3
      Did some testing on Serious Sam Fusion 2017 BFE yesterday which shows some great progress.

      Ubuntu 17.10 stock Mesa 17.2.2: Decent OpenGL performance, Vulkan not working due to Mir patch
      Proposed repo Mesa 17.2.4: Same OpenGL perf, Vulkan now working but causes graphical glitches and slightly less perf than OGL.
      Padoka PPA Mesa 17.4git: Noticeably better OpenGL perf, Vulkan now working without glitches and is slightly faster than OGL

      Don't remember the exact numbers, but 17.2 OGL was averaging around 84fps I think and my initial Vulkan testing was probably just below 80fps. With padoka OGL was just above 90fps while Vulkan was close to 100fps.

      Ryzen 1700X
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      R9 Fury
      Last edited by Brisse; 08 December 2017, 10:35 AM.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by pinguinpc View Post

        @Michael

        But opengl 4.6 dont stay ready still, lack of features and conformant tests (maybe stay ready for Q1 2018?), right?

        OpenGL 4.6 stay now but on nvidia propietary drivers, 387 series (cemu use OpenGL 4.6 if stay avalaible)

        two extensions missing, but are already starting working on them for some time, most likely ogl 4.6 for intel at least and maybe radeonSI in mesa 18.0

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        • #5
          Here is still hoping someone finishes up ARB_stencil_texturing, ARB_texture_stencil8 and ARB_query_buffer_object for Ivybridge. That should bring it all the way up to 4.5/4.6

          Not that it would be of any practical use, though.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by treba View Post
            Here is still hoping someone finishes up ARB_stencil_texturing, ARB_texture_stencil8 and ARB_query_buffer_object for Ivybridge. That should bring it all the way up to 4.5/4.6

            Not that it would be of any practical use, though.
            No offence, but I'd rather have more bugfixing on existing features than new stuff enabling OGL 4.6. Really it's far too weak to really run anything that really requires OGL 4.6.

            For example, it's years I keep seeing the following cryptic error in dmesg (and I'm using Tumbleweed where the kernel isn't stuck on LTS releases, currently on kernel 4.14.something)

            Code:
            [    2.423593] [drm:intel_set_cpu_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared fifo underrun on pipe A
            [    2.423623] [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun
            [    2.423667] [drm:intel_set_pch_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared pch fifo underrun on pch transcoder A
            [    2.423693] [drm:cpt_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

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            • #7
              Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
              No offence, but I'd rather have more bugfixing on existing features than new stuff enabling OGL 4.6. Really it's far too weak to really run anything that really requires OGL 4.6.

              For example, it's years I keep seeing the following cryptic error in dmesg (and I'm using Tumbleweed where the kernel isn't stuck on LTS releases, currently on kernel 4.14.something)

              Code:
              [ 2.423593] [drm:intel_set_cpu_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared fifo underrun on pipe A
              [ 2.423623] [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun
              [ 2.423667] [drm:intel_set_pch_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared pch fifo underrun on pch transcoder A
              [ 2.423693] [drm:cpt_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun
              I've come to the decision to never ever buy Intel GPUs again. Their driver is unstable beyond any hope.
              ## VGA ##
              AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
              Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)

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              • #8
                Originally posted by darkbasic View Post
                I've come to the decision to never ever buy Intel GPUs again. Their driver is unstable beyond any hope.
                Good for AMD. I don't see any major issues on Ivy Bridge's HD4000, either with the 2d acceleration driver or with modesetting, but then again I'm using it for running a desktop and some light gaming.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
                  Good for AMD. I don't see any major issues on Ivy Bridge's HD4000, either with the 2d acceleration driver or with modesetting, but then again I'm using it for running a desktop and some light gaming.
                  That's my use case too, but I go too many issues even with that. Every kind of weird crashes, even memory corruption which caused data loss. Since several kernel releases everything is completely fine and stable, but I don't want to deal with pre-alpha quality software once again. Especially considering that out of kernel AMD code has always been much more stable than "stable" Intel drivers.

                  P.S. Modesetting is perfect, but SNA is still a disaster.
                  ## VGA ##
                  AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
                  Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
                    No offence, but I'd rather have more bugfixing on existing features than new stuff enabling OGL 4.6. Really it's far too weak to really run anything that really requires OGL 4.6.

                    For example, it's years I keep seeing the following cryptic error in dmesg (and I'm using Tumbleweed where the kernel isn't stuck on LTS releases, currently on kernel 4.14.something)

                    Code:
                    [ 2.423593] [drm:intel_set_cpu_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared fifo underrun on pipe A
                    [ 2.423623] [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun
                    [ 2.423667] [drm:intel_set_pch_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared pch fifo underrun on pch transcoder A
                    [ 2.423693] [drm:cpt_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun
                    Agreed, firefox with acceleration enabled by default would also be a great win. AFAIK their problems are mostly driver issues.

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