Mesa

Intel Ultrabook Performance Is Faster With Mesa 9.2

Mesa 9.1.3 Release Corrects Some Bugs

Mesa 9.1.2 Fixes A Handful Of Graphics Driver Bugs

A Very Early Gallium3D TGSI Back-End For LLVM

Shader Optimization Back-End Might Go In For R600g

Compressed Textures, Tiling Merged For RadeonSI

Modern Intel Gallium3D Driver Proposed For Mainline

Early Mesa 9.2 Benchmarks With Nouveau

Mesa Gets Support For GL4's Separate Shader Objects

Gallium3D's "Heads-Up Display" Gets Some Early Love

Another OpenGL 4 Feature For Mesa Is Published

An OpenGL 4.x Feature Gets Crossed Off In Mesa

Geometry Shaders For Gallium3D LLVM

Gallium3D Gets A Heads-Up Display For Information

The State Of OpenGL 3/4 Support In Mesa/Gallium3D

Mesa 9.1.1 Starts Pulling In Bug-Fixes

Lima Driver Makes Progress With Shaders

Intel Mesa Gets Another OpenGL 4.2 Feature

Mesa Looks To Take Use Of C11 Threading

Linaro Eyes Up OpenGL ES 3.0, Mesa Improvements

Mesa/Gallium3D Gets Its First ARM SoC GPU Driver

OSMesa State Tracker + LLVMpipe Support Published

Gallium3D's Direct3D 10/11 State Tracker To Be Nuked

Canonical Announces Mir Back-End For Mainline Mesa

Gallium3D LLVMpipe Now Supports GLSL 1.40

Intel Mesa 9.1 Benchmarks On Unity, KDE, Xfce, Etc

Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Shows Progress

Intel Ironlake OpenGL Performance On Mesa 9.1

Freedreno Gallium3D Is Close To Merging In Mesa

LLVMpipe Picks Up Support For New GL Extensions

Finding Out The OpenGL Core Profile Version

OpenGL 3.0 Features For Intel Ironlake Unlikely

Wiring Up GL_ARB_debug_output For Valve

Freedreno DRM Library Support Merged

Mesa 9.1 Released, Brings Many Driver Improvements

Mesa 9.0.3 Release Fixes OpenGL Issues

Revised Stack Space Patch For R600 Gallium3D Driver

Freedreno Graphics Driver Approaches Mainline

Reasons Mesa 9.1 Is Still Disappointing For End-Users

Nine Exciting Features Coming To Mesa 9.1

Shader Optimizations Revived For R600 Gallium3D

IBM's Porting Gallium3D LLVMpipe To PowerPC

Intel To Improve "Out Of The Box" Linux Gaming

Mesa Threading Support Is Slow, Still Being Developed

R600g Shader Disassembler Merged Into Mesa

Geometry Shaders For Mesa Not Yet Ready

New OpenGL Support In Mesa 9.1

Optimizing Mesa Performance With Compiler Flags

Mesa 9.1 Release Reaffirmed For Late February

Running OpenCL On The GPU With Gallium3D

R600 LLVM Back-End Gets Indirect Addressing Support

Mesa 9.0.2 Officially Released

LLVMpipe Gallium3D Sees A Bit Of New Activity

Gallium3D/R600 Support For Texture Multisample

Mesa 9.1 Release Planned For Late February

Mesa Hack Makes Nouveau Faster For Team Fortress 2

Intel Mesa Patches For ARB_texture_multisample

OpenGL ES 3.0 Support In Mesa Is Getting Close

Radeon R600g HyperZ Support Improved In Mesa

Mesa, EGL Support For The Buffer-Age Extension

Forcing Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing With Gallium3D

Marek Takes On MSAA Gallium3D Improvements

Gallium3D UBO/TBO Support Emerges - More GL 3.x

OpenGL Transform Feedback For LLVMpipe

Gallium3D LLVMpipe Isn't Yet Fit For ARM

Coverity Uncovers More Problems In Mesa

Mesa State Tracker Now Handles GL 3.1 Core Profiles

RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Sees A Few Fixes

OpenGL ES 3.0 Support Soon Going Into Mesa

Mesa: Thread Offloading, Asynchronous SwapBuffers

Intel Continues Work On ETC2 Texture Compression

Mesa Picks Up Another OpenGL 4 Feature

R600g Driver Patch That Can 4x The Frame-Rate

Not All Linux Users Want To Toke On LLVMpipe

Linux 3.7 + Mesa 9.1-devel Running On Ubuntu 12.10

Nine Reasons Mesa 9.0 Is Disappointing For End-Users

Nine Good Things About Mesa 9.0

Mesa 9.0 Officially Released, Supports OpenGL 3.1

Mesa 9.0 Gets A Release Date That's Very Soon

The Future Of OpenGL On Linux Looks Better

Marek Does Major Rework Of Gallium3D Blitting

A New Linux OpenGL ABI Is Being Proposed

New GLSL To LLVM Implementation For Mesa

Geometry Shaders Soon To Hit Mesa, GL 3.2 Is Close

VA-API Support Set To Be Dropped From Mesa

Direct3D In Gallium3D Suffers Bit-Rot, Now Disabled

Primus: Client-Side GPU Offloading In 500 Lines Of Code

Mesa Will Not Support GL_ARB_compatibility

Mesa's DRM Library Finally Builds VMWGFX By Default

Mesa Set To Lose OpenVMS Support

Mesa 9.0 Branching Delayed So More Features Can Land

Marek Lands Radeon Gallium3D MSAA Changes

Khronos: 20 Years Of OpenGL

ETC2 Texture Compression Looks Good For OpenGL

A Look At OpenGL ES 3.0: Lots Of Good Stuff

Mesa Release Shake-Up: Mesa 8.1 Is Now Mesa 9.0

Celebrating 20 Years Of OpenGL At SIGGRAPH 2012

How To Help Improve, Develop Mesa Drivers

OpenGL 4.3 Support Is A Ways Out In Mesa

Linux Isn't Alone With OpenGL Driver Issues

Haiku Looks To Leverage More Of Mesa

Mesa Support For OpenGL Core Contexts

Mesa Support For OpenGL Geometry Shaders

Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Now Handles Wider Registers

Mesa Support For ETC1 Texture Compression

Mesa LunarGLASS: Not Much Is Happening

The OpenGL Support State For Mesa 8.1

Marek Files 22 Gallium3D / R600g Improvements

Marek Posts Another Important Mesa Patch-Set

Marek Works On OpenGL 4.0 Transform Feedback

Mesa's Rate Of Git Development Is Slowing

Radeon Gallium3D LLVM Now Uses VLIW Scheduler

Mesa Does A Bit More Of OpenGL 4

Gallium3D R600 Shader Variant Caching

Auto-Vectorizing LLVMpipe For Performance Gains

OpenGL ES 3.0 Will Be Here This Summer

OpenCL Gallium3D State Tracker Merged Into Mesa

Intel Ivy Bridge - Linux: GL 3.0, Windows: GL 4.0

OpenGL 3.1 Not Likely In Mesa Until 2013

R600 Gallium3D LLVM Shader Compiler Hooked Up

Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver On LLVM 3.1

OpenCL/Clover Is Closer To Mesa Merging

Gallium3D Compute Infrastructure Is On Approach

What's Left For LLVMpipe Before OpenGL 3.0

Turning Mesa Into JavaScript For The Web?

Firefox May Support LLVMpipe For WebGL

What Would You Like To See Out Of Mesa 8.1?

Mesa's Piglit May Move Forward This Summer

A Pleasant Surprise In Mesa 8.1 Radeon Gallium3D

Changes To Merging Feature Work In Mesa

Mesa 8.0 Advances Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers

Cleaning Up The R600 Gallium3D Driver

R600 Gallium3D Can Now Do OpenGL 3.0, GLSL 1.30

Unigine & Mesa Move Closer To Playing Along

Mesa Beginning To Need Application Workarounds

The OpenCL State Tracker Nears Working State

In OpenCL Push, AMD Makes Progress With LLVM For Gallium3D

Closer To Radeon H.264 VDPAU In Gallium3D

Mesa 8.0 LLVMpipe: Fine For Desktop, Not For Gaming

Where Things Fall Short: Eight Shortcomings Of Mesa 8.0

Eight Reasons You Can Enjoy Mesa 8.0

It's Official: Mesa 8.0 With OpenGL 3.0

Gallium3D For Haiku Is Being Addressed

Softpipe Gets Close On GL3, Mesa 8.0 For Early February

More GL3 Work Lands In Mesa

How-To: Find The Mesa Performance Regressions

New Mesa Uniform Buffer Object Patches Posted

Holiday Gift: OpenGL Radeon Performance Goes Up

The Direct3D 10/11 State Tracker Is Still Around

The Gallium3D Cell Driver Gets Dropped Too

Mesa 7.11.1 Released

Mesa 7.12, Linux 3.2 Likely For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

MPEG4 Part 2 In Gallium3D VDPAU State Tracker

Farewell To The Classic R300/R600 Mesa Drivers

What's Missing From The Mesa Drivers

The State Of OpenGL 3.0 Support In Mesa

Mesa: Fixed Function Programs Generating GLSL

Getting OpenGL Transform Feedback For Gallium3D

Cleaning Up More Mesa Shader Code

ApiTrace 2.0 Brings OpenGL 4.2, Faster Performance

Intel Has Buggy HiZ Support Published

Uniform Buffer Object Support In Mesa's OpenGL

Nouveau Hardware-Based Video Support In Mesa

New Gallium3D G3DVL Video Patches For Merging

GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap In Software

After Dropping Old GPU Drivers, Ian Axes More Mesa Code

A 40-Way Gallium3D Graphics Card Comparison

The VP8 State Tracker That Was Born This Summer

Mesa Kills Old Hardware Support: No More 3dfx Voodoo

Android Support Merged Into Mesa / Gallium3D

Legacy Mesa Drivers Receive Their Death Sentence

Gallium3D OpenCL GSoC Near-Final Status Update

Gallium3D Post-Processing, MLAA Nearly Ready

Native Display Auto-Detection For EGL

Intel Developers Publish A Load Of Mesa Patches

What Mesa Has Left With OpenGL 3, OpenGL 4

Mesa Developers Still Fear Patent Wrath With S2TC

Mesa GLSL-To-TGSI Is Merged To Master

Will The GLSL-To-TGSI Code Now Be Merged To Master?

Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 2 Is Here

VP8 Gallium3D Support In Mesa Is Being Worked On

Mesa Gallium3D Pipe-Video Has Landed

GLSL-To-TGSI For Mesa Is Still Not Merged

Gallium3D Pipe-Video To Be Merged To Mesa Master

Mesa Gets OpenGL 3.0 Floating-Point Depth Buffers

Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

Gallium3D XA State Tracker Merged To Master

Floating-Point Depth Buffers For Mesa

Mesa's OpenGL 3.0 TODO List Is Becoming Smaller

The Different Gallium3D Drivers Available

Mesa 7.12 Is Now Where The Fun Is At

Mesa Gets Patches For GBM, A Graphics Buffer Manager

Gallium3D Clover Can Now Execute OpenCL Native Kernels

GLSL IR To TGSI Translator Ready To Be Merged Into Mesa

VMware Releases The XA Gallium3D State Tracker

R600 Gallium3D Driver Is Now Built By Default

Mesa 7.10.3 Point Release Now Available

Mesa 7.11 Is Set To Hit In July With Many Goodies

The Direct3D 10/11 State Tracker Is Still Around

Intel Pushes Ivy Bridge Code Into Mesa Master

AMD R600 Gallium3D Driver Patch For AF

A Mesa Branch Provides GLSL IR To TGSI Translator

The Intel Mesa Driver Gets Closer To OpenGL 3.0

The New R300 Register Allocator Is Still Being Developed

Martin Takes His Mesa Issues To The List

Intel Mesa Gives Problems With KDE's KWin, Again

Super! Patented Mesa Floating-Point Is Merged!

Mesa 7.10.2 Stable Released

VP8 Over VDPAU In Gallium3D Is Emeric's Target

An Improved Register Allocator For Gallium3D R300

Gallium3D OpenCL May Finally Get Some Needed Love

WebM, Theora Acceleration Talked About For Gallium3D

Will H.264 VA-API / VDPAU Finally Come To Gallium3D?

Gallium3D OpenGL 4.1 State Tracker Redux

S3TC For Mesa Is Talked About Some More

Developers Voice Concerns About OpenGL 4.1 State Tracker

An OpenGL 4.1 Gallium3D State Tracker Was Just Proposed

What Was Decided With S3TC & Floating Points For Mesa

Patches Published For Merging S3TC Library Into Mesa

Pressing On For Mesa Floating Point Support

Will Floating Point Textures Be Merged Into Mesa?

Mesa 7.10.1, Mesa 7.9.2 Stable Releases

The Mesa S3TC External Library Hits Version 1.0.0

A Glide State Tracker For Gallium3D Is Talked About

Mesa Can Now Be Smaller, Build Faster

Mesa Can Do EXT_texture_compression_RGTC

ATI R300g / R600g Unify Their Vertex Buffer Manager

An Initial Version Of LunarGLASS-LLVM For Mesa

Tiling Is Being Worked On For The Open Evergreen Driver

This GLX Patch Can Really Boosts The FPS (~ +60%)

A Bounty For Gallium3D On Haiku OS

Mesa Now Supports A Bit More Of OpenGL 3.0

Performance Work Coming Up For Mesa 7.11

Mesa 7.10, Mesa 7.9.1 Released To The Wild

Mesa 7.10 Is Coming In One Month

The Vega State Tracker Gets Cleaned, OpenVG 1.1

Work Is Back Underway On Clover: Mesa's OpenCL

XvMC With iDCT Now Working On Gallium3D

An Update On The OpenGL 3 Support In Mesa

Zack Rusin Talks About Gallium3D's TGSI IR

LunarG Proposes A Shader And Kernel Compiler Stack

Mesa 7.9 Has Now Been Released

Mesa 7.9 Makes It To The Release Candidate Stage

For Those Interested In Direct3D Over Gallium3D

Mesa 7.8.3 Release Candidate 1 Is Here

Mesa 7.9 Planned For Release In September

LLVMpipe & Compiz 0.9 Still Don't Play Along

Intel's GLSL2 Branch Is Merged To Mesa Master

The Gallium3D R600 Driver Now Has Texture Support

Here's The R600 Gallium3D Driver Running Gears

What Will Mesa's New GLSL Compiler Provide?

Mesa's Clover OpenCL Gets Some Love

Intel's Preparing To Push Its New GLSL Compiler Into Mesa

ATI Gallium3D + Wine Is Bettered A Bit

Mesa Makes More Strides Towards OpenGL 3.x Support

Gallium3D Gets A "Galahad" Driver

There's A Gallium3D State Tracker For VDPAU

Mesa 7.8.2 Graphics Stack Released

The State Of Intel's GLSL2 Compiler

The R300 GLSL Compiler Improvements Are Coming

Gallium3D Support For Stream Out Arrives

AROS (The Free AmigaOS) Gets With Gallium3D

Gallium3D Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) Is Going In

LLVMpipe Doesn't Yet Like The GNOME Shell

Discussing Mesa's "Stupid Development Model"

LLVMpipe's Geometry Processing Pipeline Kicks

Mesa Slowly Gets Better OpenGL 3 Coverage

Reworking OpenGL ES In Mesa, Gallium3D

A Modularized Mesa 7.8 Is Published

Mesa 7.8.1 Emergency Release Coming Today

S3TC Support For Mesa Brought Up Again

Mesa 7.7.1 & 7.8.0 Released For Open-Source 3D

Mesa 7.8 Release Imminent: RC2 Pushed

Mesa Receives Some OpenGL 3 Love

Luc's Modular Mesa Drivers Fall On Deaf Ears

Mesa 7.8 Gets Ready With Release Candidate

Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Software Rasterizer Is Kicking

R600 Gallium3D Shader Compiler Milestone Hit

Mesa 7.8 Branched For Release This Month

Direct3D State Tracker Will Not Be Open-Source

DirectX 10/11 Coming Atop Gallium3D

DRI2 Driver For Mesa EGL In The Works

VMware's Embedded Plans For Gallium3D?

Mesa Code Activity Really Exploded In 2009

There's A Direct3D 9.0 Gallium3D State Tracker

R600/700 Mesa Driver Picks Up Blit Support

Mesa 7.8 In March; Mesa 8.0 To Have OpenGL 3

New EGL Gallium3D State Tracker Pushed

Gallium3D Feature Levels Plotted, Discussed

The State Of OpenGL 3.x in Mesa Core

Gallium3D Gets New Geometry Shader Support

Intel i965 Gallium3D Driver To Go Mainline

Mesa 7.7 Released (Mesa 7.6.1 Too)

It's Your Last Chance To Test Mesa 7.7

The Linux Graphics Documentation That's Needed

Gallium3D Gets A Blitter Module

OpenCL Over Mesa, Gallium3D Discussion

Mesa / Gallium3D Branch Happenings

Mesa 7.7 Release Candidate 2 Is Out

Gallium3D Workshop Videos, Slides Posted

Mesa 7.7 Is In Sight With Release Candidate

VMware Releases Its New Gallium3D Driver

The State Of Gallium3D, Its Future, Etc

Overhauling Mesa's GLSL Compiler Performance

Mesa Comes To Android-based x86 Netbooks

ATI R300 Gallium3D DRI Support Is "Done"

The State of State Trackers In Gallium3D

Mesa 7.7 May Be A Christmas Present

DRM Development Documentation (TTM, GEM, KMS, etc)

Assembly Shader Extension For Mesa Drafted

ATI R300-R500 Gallium3D Driver Is "Mostly" Done

Linux Foundation To Take Stab At 3D Patent Issue

Patents May Cause Issues For OpenGL 3 In Mesa

Mesa 7.6 Released, Mesa 7.5 Updated Too

XvMC Work Moved To X.Org State Tracker

Work On X-Video In Gallium3D Is Underway

Mesa 7.6 Planned For Release Next Week

Gallium3D's Softpipe Driver Now Runs Faster

A 30,000 Line Patch For Mesa Brings Geometry Shaders

Work On Mesa 7.7 Is Underway

Gallium3D Support For Haiku Operating System

Mesa 7.5.1 Brings Bug Fixes

X-Video, EXA Coming Atop Gallium3D

Mesa Slowly Picking Up OpenGL 3 Support

OpenCL Support Atop Gallium3D Is Here, Sort Of

Assembly Shader Rework Hitting Mesa Today

Radeon Driver Picks Up VBOs, OQ Support

The Status Of Gallium3D Drivers, State Trackers

OpenGL 3.2 Specification Officially Released

Compiz Running With Mesa On R600/700 GPUs

No New GLSL Compiler For Mesa, But Optimized IR

A New Radeon Shader Compiler For Mesa

Mesa 7.5 Finally Released w/ New Features

The Future Of EGL On Linux With Mesa, Eagle

A Fourth Release Candidate For Mesa 7.5

Gallium3D Gets A New Driver

Mesa 7.4.3 Brings A Handful Of Fixes

Radeon 3D Driver Rewrite Merged To Master

Mesa 7.5 RC3 Brings Build, Bug Fixes

Gallium3D Picks Up Networking Support

OpenCL, OpenGL 3.1 State Trackers "Hopefully Soon"

OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 State Trackers For Gallium3D

Mesa 7.5 Release Candidate 2 Brings Few Fixes

Mesa 7.5 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

OpenVG 1.0 State Tracker Is Here!

OpenVG State Tracker For Gallium3D Tomorrow

Gallium3D-Capable Mesa 7.5 Release This Week!

Open-Source R600 OpenGL Support May Come Soon

Mesa 7.4 Released, Fixes The 7.3 Bugs

Gallium3D Now At Version 0.3 In Mesa

OpenGL 3.1 Released Plus New Audio Standard

Gallium3D: TGSI IR, OpenCL, LLVM Work Ahead

Radeon Driver Rewrite Only Has A Few Things Left

Mesa 7.4 Release Candidate 1 Released

Gallium3D Gets Xorg, DRI2 State Trackers

Intel TTM Officially Dies, Code Stripped Away In Mesa

Gallium3D Now In Mainline Mesa Code-Base!

Gallium3D Merging To Mesa Master This Week

OpenCL In Gallium3D By Summer

A Mesa (OpenGL) Driver For The Nintendo Wii?

Mesa 7.5 Gets New OpenGL Extensions & More

A Video Decoding Interface For Gallium3D

Mesa 7.3 Release Candidate 3 Is Out

Mesa 7.3 Release Candidate 2 Now Available

Gallium3D To Enter Mainline Mesa Code

Mesa 7.3 Gets Primed With GLSL 1.20, GEM, DRI2

Open ATI R600/700 3D Graphics For Christmas?

Mesa 7.2 Has Been Released

SGI Puts OpenGL Work Under New License

Mesa 7.2 Release Candidate 1

The State Of Gallium3D Video Decoding

Enhanced Debugging With Gallium3D

Gallium3D Update, 2D Support Coming?

Revised DRI2 Enters Mesa, X Server

Mesa 7.1 Released, X.Org 7.4 Coming!

Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 4

Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 3 Released

Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 1

Another Overview Of Gallium3D

Mesa 7.0.3 Released

A Unified GPGPU API In Gallium3D?

OpenGL 3.0 Announced, Expected Soon

Mesa 7.0, OpenGL 2.0/2.1 Support

Mesa 6.5.2 Released


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