Intel "Crocus" Driver For Old iGPUs Bumps OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel "Crocus" Driver For Old iGPUs Bumps OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support

The Intel Crocus Mesa driver providing open-source Gallium3D support for older i965 through Haswell era graphics hardware is now offers much better OpenGL compatibility profile support...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Crocus-Better-Compat

[Eirikr1848]

My Dell D630 just keeps kickin’! Core 2 Extreme CPU upgrade, 8GB RAM, Blu-Ray Burner, 1TB SSD, and now: those 965/X3100/Crestline graphics just keep things working smoothly.

…. Now just need beignet to support OpenCL on elderly GPUs 😂

[coder]

…. Now just need beignet to support OpenCL on elderly GPUs 😂

Or for Mesa OpenCL to mature.

[tildearrow]

So does Crocus support Ivy? Nice!

[DanL]

is now offers much better OpenGL compatibility profile support...

Typo: It should be "now offers" or "is now offering".

[illwieckz]

Or for Mesa OpenCL to mature.

Maybe I'm wrong but as far as I know there is no Intel implementation in Mesa OpenCL, also Mesa OpenCL is hardware-specific (like with OpenGL where there is iris, crocus, r600, radeonsi, nouveau…) so getting one platform working would not mean other platforms would be working.

[skeevy420]

It appears that restriction was a Crockus-shit.

[coder]

Maybe I'm wrong but as far as I know there is no Intel implementation in Mesa OpenCL, also Mesa OpenCL is hardware-specific (like with OpenGL where there is iris, crocus, r600, radeonsi, nouveau…) so getting one platform working would not mean other platforms would be working.

Well, I think it's a case of "both-and". Bth Mesa OpenCL needs to mature AND the Crocus driver needs to implement support for the particular features. Still, it should be a lot less work than implementing OpenCL for Crocus from scratch.

BTW, what's the story behind the name Crocus?

[ehansin]

BTW, what's the story behind the name Crocus?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the Mesa driver (or wherever it comes from) for the newer Intel graphics is called Iris, which is a flower. Crocus is also a flower! In fact, per below, it is part of the Iris family of flowers! There you have it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QblkQ-J6zio

[zeehio]

To my understanding this change is important for wine to run. I suffer the issue below and it seems this change would fix the issue on Crocus :-)

https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=29362