Intel's Mesa Driver Is OpenGL 4.6 Compliant, But Won't Be Mainline For A While

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Mesa Driver Is OpenGL 4.6 Compliant, But Won't Be Mainline For A While

As noted when covering the news yesterday of Khronos launching the OpenGL 4.6 Adopters Program, the NVIDIA proprietary driver and Intel's open-source Linux driver are the first OpenGL drivers considered 4.6 compliant. But on the Intel Linux side, the OpenGL 4.6 work has yet to be all upstreamed into Mesa...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-OpenGL-4.6-Out-Of-Tree

[boxie]

while it is a little sad that OpenGL 4.6 is still a few months away - I am happy that there is a cool new linker feature in NIR!

[andre30correia]

not in ubuntu 18.04? maybe not at launch

[chimpy]

For gaming this isn't a big deal; games either use OGL 4.3/4.5 or Vulkan. There's no rush for 4.6.

[pinguinpc]

For gaming this isn't a big deal; games either use OGL 4.3/4.5 or Vulkan. There's no rush for 4.6.

Native games for now dont use opengl 4.6, however cemu 1.10f and upper use opengl 4.6 (avalaible on nvidia for now)

[rastersoft]

Native games for now dont use opengl 4.6, however cemu 1.10f and upper use opengl 4.6 (avalaible on nvidia for now)

But do they need SPIRV? Because they can just ask for the extensions they need instead of asking for full 4.6, and since i965 and radeonSI both have all 4.6 extensions except SPIRV, then it should work fine...