RadeonSI Now Supports Two More OpenGL Extensions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Now Supports Two More OpenGL Extensions

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has picked up support for two more OpenGL ARB extensions outside of what's mandated by OpenGL 4.5...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RadeonSI-2-More-Multi-Draw-Caps

[plonoma]

Do these extensions together with OpenGL 4.5 allow making a streaming map applicaton where you don't need to send drawing commands for every map-chunk/tile/volume?

[SaucyJack]

Judging from the git repo they pushed the experimental/functional AMDGPU SI support to kernel 4.9. So these awesome patches won't have much of an impact on 1.0 hardware until then .

[eydee]

These articles would be a lot more interesting, if (when possible) they would list a few examples of known applications that make use of and profit from the new features.

[boxie]

These articles would be a lot more interesting, if (when possible) they would list a few examples of known applications that make use of and profit from the new features.

I agree, but it would be hard to unless there is an existing database of applications and the opengl components they use.

[OneTimeShot]

I'm all for the feature complete software, but are these extensions likely to get included in a future version of OpenGL? Maybe they are "intermediate steps" for OpenGL 4.5 or something.

In any case, let's hope that RadeonSI/Nouveau can catch up with Intel for both OGL and Vulcan soon. OpenSource should be the bleeding edge: ahead of the proprietary drivers, not a year behind.