Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware

[Kayden]

OpenGL ES 3.0 requires ETC2. OpenGL ES 3.2 (or the GL_ANDROID_extension_pack_es31a extension) require ASTC.

[andrei_me]

It was ETC2 or ASTC that is mandatory on OpenGL?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware

For those running Ivybridge/Haswell era Intel graphics and older, better support for ETC2 texture compression is on the way...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ETC2-Improvements-Gen7