Mesa 17.0 Git Lands OpenGL 4.5 Support For Intel Haswell

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 17.0 Git Lands OpenGL 4.5 Support For Intel Haswell

As a quick update from this morning's article about Intel's Mesa driver getting ready for OpenGL 4.5 on Haswell, that code has now landed...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-17.0-Gets-Haswell-GL45

[blubbaer]

Can't wait when Mesa 17.0.2 is available in Debian Testing. Probably in 6 months

[CochainComplex]

Wohoo. Thx to the devs !

[santiago]

Can't wait when Mesa 17.0.2 is available in Debian Testing. Probably in 6 months

Debian maintainer for Mesa is one of its developers. Last few years stable Mesa version getting uploaded to Debian Sid right after release.

[suberimakuri]

Santiago, really?
I think normally .0.0 goes to experimental and can take a good month to get to sid.
The .0.1 release goes quickly to sid then testing.

I've moved to Padoka on debian sid about 6 months ago though so I may be out of date with what they are doing now sorry.
Just remember to set the pref higher so it does use Padoka LLVM/etc over sid.
I have experimental with low pref just in case, but haven't seen anything get pulled from there in a while.

$ glxinfo | grep core
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.5
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.0.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50