ARB_gpu_shader_int64 Sounds Like It's Ready For Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ARB_gpu_shader_int64 Sounds Like It's Ready For Mesa

In addition to the big Mesa shader cache patch series hitting the mailing list over night, Ian Romanick at Intel sent out another big patch series: his revised work on ARB_gpu_shader_int64 support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-INT64-Might-Be-Ready

[Azrael5]

which kind of opengl version concern this improvements?

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Can we have GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 for r600g plz?

[DanL]

Can we have GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 for r600g plz?

If your card supports it, you should have it: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/me...971d00c810d3c9

which kind of opengl version concern this improvements?

"Other extensions
Extensions that are not part of any OpenGL or OpenGL ES version"

https://mesamatrix.net/

[Azpegath]

Wow, 5000 lines of code for an INT64 extension... That's a hell of a lot of LOC.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

If your card supports it, you should have it

Well, as you probably know, most of 5xxx and 6xxx cards doesn't support it, but fglrx emulate it anyway.

[DanL]

Ah, I see. Maybe this is good news?

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Soft-FP64-GPU-Work-XDC2016

The dev working on it just did a 1.0 release.

https://github.com/Hopetech/libSoftFloat

[F.Ultra]

Wow, 5000 lines of code for an INT64 extension... That's a hell of a lot of LOC.

Well it does a lot more than just provide a 64-bit integer, looks like it provides a complete math package: https://www.opengl.org/registry/spec...ader_int64.txt