Intel Aiming For Their Gallium3D Driver To Be Viable By Mesa 19.2, Default By EOY 2019

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Aiming For Their Gallium3D Driver To Be Viable By Mesa 19.2, Default By EOY 2019

Following questions from our forum goers, there's now an overview of the current state of Intel's new "Iris" Gallium3D driver and its road-map for the remainder of the year in being the company's next-gen OpenGL driver that should be in especially good shape by the time Icelake "Gen 11" hardware arrives...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Gallium3D-2019-Plans

[lowlands]

Typo: "Bur by the end of 2019..." 2nd paragraph
Link to Ken's Gitlab milestone is empty

[nanonyme]

Does this involve VAAPI support through Mesa?

[treba]

Has somebody tried gallium9? Does just work?

[andrei_me]

Good to know that Intel realized that they would eventually need a Gallium driver

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Does this involve VAAPI support through Mesa?

Isn't Intel Media Driver should be used instead of Mesa VAAPI implementation? As I understand it more advanced and also support Wayland. It's packages and available in Ubuntu 19.04, including free and non-free version.

[FireBurn]

Has somebody tried gallium9? Does just work?

Yes, works fine here

[FireBurn]

Isn't Intel Media Driver should be used instead of Mesa VAAPI implementation? As I understand it more advanced and also support Wayland. It's packages and available in Ubuntu 19.04, including free and non-free version.

I ran vainfo against both versions (from git) and the Mesa one has more things listed

Here's the diff:

--- vainfo.i965 2019-04-25 15:48:39.633916428 +0100
+++ vainfo.iHD  2019-04-25 15:47:52.596016997 +0100
@@ -1,26 +1,20 @@
-vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Skylake - 2.4.0.pre1 (2.3.0-11-g881e67a)
+vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver - 1.0.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.5 (libva 2.5.0.pre1)
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:        VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:        VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:        VAEntrypointFEI
-      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:        VAEntrypointStats
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:        VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :        VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               :        VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileH264High               :        VAEntrypointFEI
-      VAProfileH264High               :        VAEntrypointStats
      VAProfileH264High               :        VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :        VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               :        VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileH264Main               :        VAEntrypointFEI
-      VAProfileH264Main               :        VAEntrypointStats
      VAProfileH264Main               :        VAEntrypointVLD
-      VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh      :        VAEntrypointEncSlice
-      VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh      :        VAEntrypointVLD
-      VAProfileH264StereoHigh         :        VAEntrypointEncSlice
-      VAProfileH264StereoHigh         :        VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               :        VAEntrypointEncSlice
+      VAProfileHEVCMain               :        VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileHEVCMain               :        VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :        VAEntrypointEncPicture
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :        VAEntrypointVLD
@@ -28,9 +22,9 @@
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :        VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :        VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :        VAEntrypointVLD
+      VAProfileNone                   :        VAEntrypointStats
      VAProfileNone                   :        VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            :        VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                :        VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              :        VAEntrypointVLD
-      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          :        VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          :        VAEntrypointVLD

[aufkrawall]

Isn't Intel Media Driver should be used instead of Mesa VAAPI implementation? As I understand it more advanced and also support Wayland.

VAAPI works with Radeons on Wayland, so the Mesa driver supports it as well.

[dreamer_]

I wonder - will this new driver support older iGPUs? Sandybridge, Haswell, etc?

I could use some Vulkan working on my old Sandybridge laptop