Haswell On Mesa Now Has Nearly Complete OpenGL ES 3.2 Implementation

[ebassi]

What's the use case for this? Just wondering since haswell supports regular OpenGL. Would be cool if you could use ES outside of X, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

WebGL is basically the OpenGL ES spec, so supporting current GLES allows web browsers to easily create GLES contexts for WebGL.

[starshipeleven]

Wouldn't OGL ES on Haswell also be useful for those who would like to run Android x86 or the derivative Remix OS on their desktop or laptop along side of or in replacement of their current OS.

Yes it would. If someone fixed the other various issues of supporting a PC properly with Android x86/RemixOS, that is.

[Jumbotron]

Wouldn't OGL ES on Haswell also be useful for those who would like to run Android x86 or the derivative Remix OS on their desktop or laptop along side of or in replacement of their current OS.

http://www.android-x86.org/

http://www.jide.com/remixos

[doom_Oo7]

What's the use case for this? Just wondering since haswell supports regular OpenGL. Would be cool if you could use ES outside of X, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Qt apps or OpenFrameworks apps can run directly with EGL and OpenGL ES, outside of any X server. It's very useful on embedded platforms like Raspberry Pi.

[starshipeleven]

What's the use case for this? Just wondering since haswell supports regular OpenGL. Would be cool if you could use ES outside of X, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I think desktop DEs use OGL ES outside X, or at least KDE can. Afaik it is/was used to avoid OpenGL libraries that have a ton of X-specific dependencies. I don't know the current situation.

[eydee]

Candy Crush benchmarks incoming.

[smitty3268]

android intel drivers are not the same

There are people using Intel Mesa drivers on Android, and that's the primary use-case for GLES support.

[andre30correia]

android intel drivers are not the same

[smitty3268]

What's the use case for this? Just wondering since haswell supports regular OpenGL. Would be cool if you could use ES outside of X, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Android.

[arokh]

What's the use case for this? Just wondering since haswell supports regular OpenGL. Would be cool if you could use ES outside of X, but that doesn't seem to be the case.