MSAA Anti-Aliasing Finally Comes To Radeon R300g

[marek]

We can make MLAA a bit faster. There is some needless memory copying we can eliminate. However, MSAA will always give you higher quality.

[curaga]

I was just about to bring up MLAA. Can we get an update on the status of it?

No changes w/ MLAA since the 8.0 release. The post-processing in general has had some small optimizations.

The MLAA implementation is essentially complete, so there isn't really anything to change. New algorithms, like TXAA/FXAA could be added by someone interested as an alternative.

[TheCycoONE]

So Merek, how do you want my money? Very spiffy.

[marek]

I don't recommend running all.tests. Running quick-driver.tests is enough and doesn't take so long.

[oibaf]

The all.test can take many hours (I tried it some months ago), you can probably do it with a LiveCD if you have enough RAM since you'll have to download a lot of packages to be able to use it. I'd suggest to run the LiveCD image from a USB drive where you can download and save packages after reboting.

[oibaf]

I have a RS690 (r400) that is unfortunately stuck on Windows right now. How long does piglet usually take to run? Any expected issues with running from a LiveCD?

Is this the latest piglit website? http://people.freedesktop.org/~nh/piglit/

Yes, download it with git and then see its README: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/piglit/tree/README

[gQuigs]

Test on a LiveCD?

I have a RS690 (r400) that is unfortunately stuck on Windows right now. How long does piglet usually take to run? Any expected issues with running from a LiveCD?

Is this the latest piglit website? http://people.freedesktop.org/~nh/piglit/

[oibaf]

Thanks Marek! I'll updated my PPA tomorrow and test on my RV530.

[EmbraceUnity]

I was just about to bring up MLAA. Can we get an update on the status of it?

[oibaf]

This is also only standard MSAA while the proprietary AMD and NVIDIA drivers with modern GPUs support much more advanced anti-aliasing (AA) methods.

Gallium (including r300g) also supports MLAA.