OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2

It landed sooner than anticipated but the LLVMpipe patches enabling OpenGL 4.5 support were merged to Mesa 20.3-devel today and are also marked for back-porting to the Mesa 20.2 series soon to be promoted to stable...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenGL-4.5-LLVMpipe-Lands

[FireBurn]

What's the override to force software rendering to test this out?

[shmerl]

What's the override to force software rendering to test this out?

MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=llvmpipe

Same works for zink:

MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink

[Teggs]

I have wondered idly if video outputs will begin appearing on server boards. With the increasing computational power of the new many-core CPUs, and software like this and Zink, it seems you could now reasonably do low-intensity or infrequent video with no GPU at all if you wished.

[M@GOid]

I have wondered idly if video outputs will begin appearing on server boards. With the increasing computational power of the new many-core CPUs, and software like this and Zink, it seems you could now reasonably do low-intensity or infrequent video with no GPU at all if you wished.

You still need a way to get the signal out, so a chip has to be there. If I'm not mistaken, a ancient Matrox GPU model is the weapon of choice for a lot of server boards. Its Linux kernel driver was even updated a couple months ago.

[pal666]

You still need a way to get the signal out, so a chip has to be there.

you also need monitor to get signal into. there are usb videocards and there are usb or wifi-connectable monitors

[pal666]

llvmpipe already pushed r600 out of top 5
and it's catching up with nvc0

[gilboa]

You still need a way to get the signal out, so a chip has to be there. If I'm not mistaken, a ancient Matrox GPU model is the weapon of choice for a lot of server boards. Its Linux kernel driver was even updated a couple months ago.

Keep in mins that most servers are usually accessed remotely via ipmi / iDrac / ILO, so getting the signal out is rarely a problem...