Intel Linux Graphics Stack Gets Another Speed Boost - Helping Civilization VI By ~18%

[Almindor]

... and that abstraction layer would not be allowed upstream. Are you saying that we should only produce out-of-tree drivers like NVidia ?

That's a good question. If you only had one windows driver and one Linux driver I'd say no, don't. Since you have at least 2 Linux drivers and 1 windows driver I'd say probably yes.

This would also allow you to easily support other platforms from the same codebase, e.g. macos X or even BSDs which are "similar enough". With a smaller driver team I'd guess this'd be a win-win in the long run.

Also if the whole thing goes GPLv2 it might even be mainlined? Not sure how abstraction layers would be handled there tho.