Mesa Gets Patches For EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture, Freedreno A6xx MSAA

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa Gets Patches For EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture, Freedreno A6xx MSAA

Wayland founder Kristian Høgsberg Kristensen who has been on Google's Chrome OS graphics team the past few years is continuing to help advance the open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics support...

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

[microcode]

That's a cool sign. Sounds like we're in line to see a Snapdragon-based Chromebook with Freedreno as the default GPU driver.

[Guest]

That's a cool sign. Sounds like we're in line to see a Snapdragon-based Chromebook with Freedreno as the default GPU driver.

That would be nice. It would be even better if they improved the Freedreno GPU driver and used it for Android devices.

[rhysk]

Nice to see Google seemingly shipping another product with open GPU drivers, rather than a closed source blob-derived board support package.
The previous example being the Pixel C tablet.