Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC

The Mesa 23.1 graphics drover code has added support for software-based decoding of Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) textures via compute shaders...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-ASTC-Compute-Decode

[Brisse]

So if I understand this correctly, there was already a software fallback in place, but this is supposed to be faster?

[Michael]

So if I understand this correctly, there was already a software fallback in place, but this is supposed to be faster?

That was a CPU based decoder.

[kozman]

"The Mesa 23.1 graphics drover code.."

Spelling > ...driver...

[Quackdoc]

I wonder if this will work in android via virgl, IIRC some games have been giving issues with this

[Luke_Wolf]

When is Mesa 23.0 actually going to be released though?