RadeonSI HyperZ Support Patches Made Available

[LN17]

Hi Marek,

Thank you for your and the whole AMD FOSS developers team the hard work to improve the AMD graphic driver. I see each week you submit a tremendous quantity of fixes/developments. Now based on this I have few question occurred in my mind.

-what do you think where the driver development stands at the moment?
-what do you think what is the most important missing developments
-What is the high level plan to add them
-what is your expectation if the new MESA 11.0 will be released what will be in it.


Thank you for your answers in advance.

[gradinaruvasile]

And something new about Firefox Hardware acceleration with FOSS-Drivers?

On radeonsi? On r600g it works just fine.

[marek]

-what do you think where the driver development stands at the moment?
-what do you think what is the most important missing developments

We currently support OpenGL 3.1 plus some features from later GL versions, and we only need geometry shaders to be compliant with OpenGL 3.3.

Concerning performance, we need these:
- better (low-overhead) state management and command submission in the radeonsi driver; implementing a fetch shader should also help remove a little bit of CPU overhead in some applications
- better GPU memory management in the kernel driver
- fast color, depth, and stencil clear; HiZ, HiS
- improvements to the LLVM shader backend
- improvements to glamor maybe?

-What is the high level plan to add them
-what is your expectation if the new MESA 11.0 will be released what will be in it.

I don't want to speculate, though I'm pretty sure there will be GL 4.0, otherwise it wouldn't be called "11.0".