Intel's Open-Source Driver Stack Now OpenGL 4.5 Certified, Complements Vulkan & GLES

[Jabberwocky]

This is a *huge* deal for the graphics subsystem of modern GNU/Linux ! All things considered, graphics is now 'fixed' on Linux, next up fixup the audio sub/eco-system(s) so it is competitive at the professional level :|

Remember they days where some apps would only run on OSS and others in ALSA? We also had ARTS yuck! For the average user graphics and audio are "fixed", for professionals neither are "fixed". https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gamin...hat_use_linux/

[funfunctor]

This is a *huge* deal for the graphics subsystem of modern GNU/Linux ! All things considered, graphics is now 'fixed' on Linux, next up fixup the audio sub/eco-system(s) so it is competitive at the professional level :|

[funfunctor]

The binary blobs are things that don't run on the CPU, but rather directly on their hardware.

Think of it like your computers BIOS. That's likely not open source on your machine even if you are running an open source OS like linux, and it provides some very low-level hardware specific things.

nar, I got a opensource BIOS also sorry <g>

[swoorup]

Couldn't that be a llvm compiler target?

[smitty3268]

This is awesome and wonderful!
But I don't understand one thing...
If Intel's driver is open source, what's with the binary blobs?
I mean I like graphic features like OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan, but if it comes with spyware, I'm better off without.

The binary blobs are things that don't run on the CPU, but rather directly on their hardware.

Think of it like your computers BIOS. That's likely not open source on your machine even if you are running an open source OS like linux, and it provides some very low-level hardware specific things.

[andrebrait]

This is awesome and wonderful!
But I don't understand one thing...
If Intel's driver is open source, what's with the binary blobs?
I mean I like graphic features like OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan, but if it comes with spyware, I'm better off without.

AFAIK the binary blobs are for interfacing the driver with the hardware itself, and they handle some very low level functions. They contain stuff that is particular to each processor's architecture. And I may very well be very wrong about this, but I remember reading about it some years ago.

[Danny3]

This is awesome and wonderful!
But I don't understand one thing...
If Intel's driver is open source, what's with the binary blobs?
I mean I like graphic features like OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan, but if it comes with spyware, I'm better off without.

[woife]

Great news

[Michael]

For which generations does this certification apply? I doubt that Haswell is also certified. The article at 01.org mentions "latest three generations of Intel® Core™ processors" so I guess it's Broadwell+

Yes, Broadwell+ AFAIK

[blubbaer]

For which generations does this certification apply? I doubt that Haswell is also certified. The article at 01.org mentions "latest three generations of Intel® Core™ processors" so I guess it's Broadwell+