It's Getting Close Whether The OpenGL On-Disk Shader Cache Will Happen For Mesa 17.0

[LeJimster]

This is one feature I've been waiting for. I understand the devs are always looking to improve shader compile times and thats great, but really they should only have to be done once, not every time you play a game. I believe Rocket League needs this badly as do a bunch of other titles.

I know some patches were put in place to lay the ground for a shader cache on radeonsi, but that was a couple of months ago. The only updates we've had are for intels sc.

[sirblackheart]

Perhaps he meant RadeonSI and R600? Either way, it would be nice for both of them to have it.

No I was wrong. Bad assumption on my part.

Still hoping we will get this soon.

[Mystro256]

wrong. RadeonSI only. amdgpu is in the kernel. RadeonSI is in Mesa.
For pre-GCN gpus there is a kernel module named radeon. Both, radeon and amdgpu use mesas radeonSI for 3D rendering.

Perhaps he meant RadeonSI and R600? Either way, it would be nice for both of them to have it.

[tomtomme]

RadeonSI and amdgpu.

wrong. RadeonSI and r600. amdgpu and radeon are in kernel. RadeonSI and r600 are in Mesa.
radeon is for pre-fiji gpus, amdgpu is for fiji and newer (while older gcn gpus are experimental). Both, radeon and amdgpu use mesas radeonSI for 3D rendering.

[eydee]

As long as it's Intel-only, it doesn't really even exist.

[sirblackheart]

I concur, we want this for RadeonSI, so I don't have to wait 1 minute longer than everyone else in the loading lobby when playing L4D2 with my girlfriend and friends.

RadeonSI and amdgpu.

Loading times for Outlast are horrible on Linux resulting in having to click away "app is not responding" notifications.

[Azpegath]

I concur, we want this for RadeonSI, so I don't have to wait 1 minute longer than everyone else in the loading lobby when playing L4D2 with my girlfriend and friends.

[wdb974]

With a name like that, it is certain is that it's going to be a great addition.


(Har, har, I'm such a language nerd.)

[darkbasic]

Please, please merge it.

[mibo]

Does anybody play shader-heavy games on an Intel gpu?
We need such cache for radeonsi.