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  • Mesa 21.0 Has Finally Killed The Classic "SWRAST" Software Rasterizer

    Phoronix: Mesa 21.0 Has Finally Killed The Classic "SWRAST" Software Rasterizer

    For years LLVMpipe has been around as a superior software-based OpenGL implementation for those without a working GPU / hardware driver support or needing to test a bit of GL code along a vendor-neutral path. LLVMpipe thanks to leveraging LLVM is more performant than the traditional Mesa software rasterizer or similar avenues like Softpipe. Finally as we hit 2021, SWRAST has been removed from the Mesa code-base...

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    Unfortunately, it seems to have caused a problem for Opensuse Tumbleweed/BuildService:

    Mesa has removed swrast https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-Kills-SWRAST Any help would be grateful so TW can receive the latest Mesa, as weel as it's new features. GL_EXT_dem……

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