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    Phoronix: Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

    While this is non-news for many Phoronix readers that are Mesa Git followers and already onto tracking Mesa 7.12-devel after using Mesa 7.11-devel for months already, for everyone else, the first release candidate of Mesa 7.11 is now available...

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  • #2
    This should be a great release, a lot has been done since 7.10.

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    • #3
      Completely working power management and I'd switch to the open source stack in a heartbeat. Video acceleration would be the only thing I would really miss then, but my desktop's CPU is fast enough anyway (AMD Phenom II X4 940) and I don't watch HD videos on my notebook (AMD Fusion E-350).

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      • #4
        It will be great to see some optimizations for r300g, because even Open Arena is hardly playable.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by kraftman View Post
          It will be great to see some optimizations for r300g, because even Open Arena is hardly playable.
          r300g is comparable to Catalyst in performance now.

          Has been for quite a while.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
            r300g is comparable to Catalyst in performance now.

            Has been for quite a while.
            Well, in the last benchmark Michael did, r300g had ~70% the speed of the blob.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by kraftman View Post
              It will be great to see some optimizations for r300g, because even Open Arena is hardly playable.
              There are indeed new r300g optimizations in 7.11. From the top of my head:
              - faster vertex uploads (also on r600g)
              - new optimized winsys that completely bypasses (doesn't use) libdrm_radeon
              - new fragment shader register allocator

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              • #8
                What are the minimum requirements for drm,libdrm,and co ?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                  r300g is comparable to Catalyst in performance now.

                  Has been for quite a while.
                  Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by marek View Post
                    There are indeed new r300g optimizations in 7.11. From the top of my head:
                    - faster vertex uploads (also on r600g)
                    - new optimized winsys that completely bypasses (doesn't use) libdrm_radeon
                    - new fragment shader register allocator
                    Thanks. I will check this out when 7.11 will get into Arch stable repo.

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