Intel's Linux Driver & Mesa Have Hit Amazing Milestones This Year

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Linux Driver & Mesa More Broadly Have Made Amazing Milestones This Year

Kaveh Nasri, the manager of Intel's Mesa driver team within the Open-Source Technology Center since 2011, spoke this morning at XDC2017 about the accomplishments of his team and more broadly the Mesa community. Particularly over the past year there has been amazing milestones accomplished for this open-source driver stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-2017-Mesa-Progress

[fctcris]

Now if only they would stop violating the khronos spec by messing with GL_ARB_timer_query... Case in point: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102597

[Guest]

Wow, that's interesting! I'm excited about the possibility of a phone with Intel GPU!

[DrYak]

Regarding other uses of Android which might interest Intel :

- bigger android devices, like set-top boxes, and smart TVs ?

- in-vehicle infotainment ? (media player, satnav : lots of potential for Android apps)

Michael : the forum link at the bottom of the article is wrong (point to the forum folder instead of this thread).