Mesa's Lima Driver Finally Implements OpenGL Shader Cache Support

[doomie]

looks like no matter what i do your proxy won't load the image, so ya lost me, but bless you for using google

[eydee]

Llima driver. It really whips the Llima's ass.

[f0rmat]

That's what she....

No. It is still January. I will try to keep my New Year's Resolutions for at least one month.

[skeevy420]

... "for the old Mali 400/450 series" but it's almost brand new for me ;3

[caligula]

Does this cache have any kind of in-memory cache stage? Avoiding compilation is great, but reading the disk on every frame sounds weird, too.

[doomie]

... "for the old Mali 400/450 series" but it's almost brand new for me ;3

[Baguy]

Will be handy for the Pinephone

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa's Lima Driver Finally Implements OpenGL Shader Cache Support

While Mesa's Panfrost Gallium3D driver has been working out well for modern ARM Mali open-source graphics support, for the old Mali 400/450 series hardware there still is the "Lima" driver within Mesa that doesn't receive too much attention these days (just around 70 commits over the past year) but as its first work of 2021 saw an initial shader cache implementation...

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