The Old Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D Driver Drops Its TGSI Code Path

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Old Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D Driver Drops Its TGSI Code Path

For those making use of the Radeon R600 Gallium3D driver within Mesa for supporting the Radeon HD 2000 series through the HD 6000 series (pre-GCN) graphics cards, Mesa 23.2 is finally ready to drop its TGSI code path for what was once the default intermediate representation (IR) used by Gallium3D drivers but in more recent years NIR has become the preferred IR format...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/R600g-Drops-TGSI

[pokazene_maslo]

I salute to Mr. Gert Wollny for his great work on R600g!

[aviallon]

I salute to Mr. Gert Wollny for his great work on R600g!

I join you in your salutation.
Thank you very much.

[ermo]

I have a couple of this generation of cards still running. Impressive to see that they're still being kept maintainable.

[rob-tech]

It's always nice to see old hardware kept alive and usable for people who don't need anything more powerful.