A Fourth Release Candidate For Mesa 7.5

[Ex-Cyber]

Its a damn shame that all this work is for mostly nothing because the most popular GPUs for Linux (NVIDIA with the binary driver) cannot take advantage of Mesa. Why don't the developers of Mesa work with NVIDIA to get this included in the binary drivers ??

Probably because NVidia has its own stack and isn't interested in supporting anything else. Besides, Mesa is mostly MIT-licensed so Nvidia should be able to grab any parts they like anyway.

[bugmenot]

Its a damn shame that all this work is for mostly nothing because the most popular GPUs for Linux (NVIDIA with the binary driver) cannot take advantage of Mesa. Why don't the developers of Mesa work with NVIDIA to get this included in the binary drivers ??

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Fourth Release Candidate For Mesa 7.5

The release of Mesa 7.5.0, which is the first version of this open-source 3D stack to include support for Gallium3D, is running a bit behind schedule. Fortunately, however, Brian Paul has pushed out what is the fourth (and final) release candidate for the 7.5 series...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzM1MA