Mesa 18.0 Officially Released With Plenty Of OpenGL & Vulkan Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 18.0 Officially Released With Plenty Of OpenGL & Vulkan Improvements

Mesa 18.0 managed to meet its Q1'2018 release target by just a couple of days... After being delayed a month and a half, Mesa 18.0.0 is now the latest stable version of this user-space driver stack most commonly associated with its OpenGL and Vulkan implementations...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-18.0.0-Released

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Good. Hopefully, with the impending AMDGPU-PRO driver release against Mesa 18.x it will tidy my OpenCL needs with Blender for a few more months while ROCm OpenCL gets sewn up with Linux 4.17 natively and be a recognized stack by Blender. If not, it's back to the AMDGPU Pro Stack.

[shmerl]

Will Debian use libllvm 6.0 with it?

[Veerappan]

Will Debian use libllvm 6.0 with it?

Don't know, but I hope so. Life's too short to deal with out of date GPU compiler stacks

[franglais125]

Will Debian use libllvm 6.0 with it?

At least the experimental version (18.0.0~rc5-1) is already compiled against 6.0. We'll see when it gets packaged for sid how the dependencies are shown.

https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/mesa

[FireBurn]

Does the delay mean 18.1 will also be delayed, or will it be released in 6 weeks?

[Michael]

Does the delay mean 18.1 will also be delayed, or will it be released in 6 weeks?

Usually previous release delays for Mesa don't end up holding the N+1 releases.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Will Debian use libllvm 6.0 with it?

It has to if it wants to be ready for ROCm and Linux Kernel 4.17 natively.

[dungeon]

Does the delay mean 18.1 will also be delayed, or will it be released in 6 weeks?

Mesa do 4 releases per year, so i expect 18.1 to be before or in about time summer appear in the Northern Hemisphere

I have no idea from where this 6 weeks comming from, since we have 52 weeks in year and when we divide that to 4 releases that is 13 weeks timeframe So it s delayed if it exceed these 13 weeks or early if happens before 13 weeks.

Mesa does not do 8 releases per year, so you can't expect it every 6 weeks

[bridgman]

Should that read "so you can't expect it every 6 weeks" ?