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I did a piglit run on fglrx the other day,
so we can say we are a lot better in terms of actually passing tests :-)
That is a piglit run from two AMD drivers a year apart.
but really its only Intel working a lot on core mesa at the moment, with others expending time as jobs allow. Its not as is Red Hat can ship GL3.0 drivers anyways so working on them isn't a great spend of our time. and working on GL doesn't get you CL or video decode or anything. Also it not as if Red Hat can ship video decoders, so again no reason for us to invest heavily in them.
Perhaps some of the distros that do ignore patents could invest more in these.
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Originally posted by Nedanfor View PostWhy? Do you really need OGL 4.2 now?## VGA ##
AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)
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Originally posted by darkbasic View PostWhy not? It would nice being able to play OilRush at the highest quality... but again performances are the main issue. Also we need at least 3.2 to get the best from wine.
PS. Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge only support OGL 3.x so I think that Intel isn't directly interested in supporting OGL 4.x.
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Originally posted by Nedanfor View PostSupport in Mesa != Support in drivers.
Originally posted by Nedanfor View PostAt the same time we need power management
Originally posted by Nedanfor View Postperformance
Originally posted by Nedanfor View PostOCL
Originally posted by Nedanfor View Posthw decoding
Originally posted by Nedanfor View Postso I guess that only a little minority of us would really need OGL 4.x over all these feature.
Originally posted by Nedanfor View PostPS. Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge only support OGL 3.x so I think that Intel isn't directly interested in supporting OGL 4.x.## VGA ##
AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)
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Originally posted by airlied View PostIts not as is Red Hat can ship GL3.0 drivers anyways so working on them isn't a great spend of our time. and working on GL doesn't get you CL or video decode or anything. Also it not as if Red Hat can ship video decoders, so again no reason for us to invest heavily in them.
Originally posted by airlied View PostPerhaps some of the distros that do ignore patents could invest more in these.
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Originally posted by elanthis View PostFOSS projects do not have a lot of developers. The idea that there are millions of people willing to contribute to FOSS may be true in the broadest sense, but it's certainly not true when you narrow things down to the actually important, useful, and/or relevant FOSS projects.
If you add up all of the people actively working on Mesa, GNOME, the desktop-related bits of the kernel, X11/Wayland, glibc and the rest of the core GNU system, and so on, you will still not have as many people as Microsoft has test engineers. The last goofy little 6-month 2D game project I worked on had a larger team than all of Mesa has.
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