Intel's Mesa Driver Isn't Yet Ready For Double-Precision Floating-Point Types

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Mesa Driver Isn't Yet Ready For Double-Precision Floating-Point Types

Those paying attention to the mailing list may have seen the patches yesterday that surfaced from an independent developer for implementing ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 with Intel's graphics driver for Gen 7+ hardware. Unfortunately, it was too good to be true...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Mesa-FP64-Doubles-No

[Nille_kungen]

At least he tried, mesa and intel driver ain't that easy to comprehend for a new developer.
I hope he continues and gives it another try, mesa needs more developers.

[curaga]

Oh god, the "Gimme Free Valve Games" horde has arrived. Just like in Debian.

[Ancurio]

Looked him up, he appears to have autism. Not saying it's relevant, but it reminded me of that one person trying his best to fix all "fixmes" in the kernel.

[Deavir]

maybe someone should point them to more busy work extensions GL_ARB_shader_subroutine seems like a good candidate.