Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code

Mesa3D as principally the collection of Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers is up to 2,996,270 lines of code (and documentation / associated scripts) within its Git tree! That should put it over the three million mark very soon while the Git activity was up by about 20% in 2019...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-2019-Activity

[In_Mint_Condition]

With last year seeing the new Panfrost and Lima Gallium3D drivers merged...

Michael,
any news on what the name of the new (Mesa) Gallium 3D driver will be for Valhal - or will they just continue with Panfrost?

Mali GPU	(Mesa) Gallium3D Driver
Utgard (Mali 400, Mali 450)	Lima
Midgard (Mali T600-T800)	Panfrost
Bitfrost (Mali G71-G76)	Panfrost
Valhal (Mali G77+ onwards)	??

[schmidtbag]

Now that we basically have OpenGL 4.6 compliance, most of Vulkan supported, a large chunk of Intel's new Gallium code implemented, and some pretty critical performance enhancements already established, I predict Mesa development is going to substantially decrease for 2020. But, that's not a bad thing: at least in regards to feature-completion and performance parity, Mesa has a finite amount of work to be done, so every single checkbox cleared off the "todo list" is something to be happy about.

[Britoid]

Mesa isn't following the unix philosophy.

[Kayden]

The domain name breakdown always cracks me up every time. :)

[cb88]

Mesa isn't following the unix philosophy.

Not sure what you are on about.... even straight up AT&T unix had graphics device drivers with specialized APIs...

The API translation layers are an artifact of Mesa having some elegance and reusablility in it's code...