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    Phoronix: RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables GLSL 1.30 Support

    The AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for supporting the Radeon HD 7000/8000 series of graphics cards now has GL Shading Language 1.30 support exposed by default...

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  • #2
    Massive improvement. The facts as they are. Much better.

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    • #3
      So r700g is not somewhat on pare with r600g?

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      • #4
        No, still only OpenGL 2.
        Code:
        OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
        OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PITCAIRN
        OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0 (git-cdad129)
        OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30

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        • #5
          Some bits and pieces required for OpenGL 3.x are still missing. AFAIK it's mostly transform feedback and msaa. It's still great to finally see radeonsi evolve into a usable driver.

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          • #6
            The funny thing being, as an owner of a RadeonSI, the catalyst driver is pretty much both unstable and unusable for any kind of graphical work beyond simply rendering a desktop.

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