Mesa 11.2 RC1 Now Available: Intel Still At OpenGL 3.3, Radeon/Nouveau At OpenGL 4.1

[darkbasic]

Mesa is an OpenGL implementation, it doesn't have Vulkan support.

Wrong, Intel stated that they want to merge their Vulkan implementation into Mesa.

[Michael]

Just wondering, since I hear Mesa has vulkan support, are nouveau and radeon compatible with vulkan yet?

No, as covered in multiple articles, all of the current Intel Mesa Vulkan code is heavily designed around Intel specifically and isn't really shared code. AMD is doing their own Vulkan driver stack that they will open-source down the road while the binary release of it will happen in near future.

[SpyroRyder]

Mesa is an OpenGL implementation, it doesn't have Vulkan support.

Mesa is a central pilar of the linux graphics stck which happendls to include an OpenGL implementation. It hasn't been just OpenGL for a long while

[HarlemSquirrel]

So will AMD Fiji now be at OpenGL 4.1 with mesa 11.2? I am at 3.0 now with mesa 11.1.2

[smitty3268]

So will AMD Fiji now be at OpenGL 4.1 with mesa 11.2? I am at 3.0 now with mesa 11.1.2

You probably need a newer LLVM.

[HarlemSquirrel]

You probably need a newer LLVM.

So I'll need LLVM 3.8 and Mesa 11.2?

[rabcor]

No, as covered in multiple articles, all of the current Intel Mesa Vulkan code is heavily designed around Intel specifically and isn't really shared code. AMD is doing their own Vulkan driver stack that they will open-source down the road while the binary release of it will happen in near future.

Thanks.

[Ancurio]

Mesa is a central pilar of the linux graphics stck which happendls to include an OpenGL implementation. It hasn't been just OpenGL for a long while

You're confusing "Mesa" with "the Mesa git repository".

[Ansla]

So will AMD Fiji now be at OpenGL 4.1 with mesa 11.2? I am at 3.0 now with mesa 11.1.2

When looking at the glxinfo output look for the core profile version that looks like this:

OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.0.6

The compatibility profile will be stuck at 3.0 for the forseable future and looks like this:

OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.6