The Big Changes, Improvements Of Mesa 17.0

[smitty3268]

So, one question
Since Mesa 17 have now full OGL 4.5 on radeon SI, it means that, there is no extention left to make to be on-pair with the AMD GPUPRO?
From now on forward it will optimization only on the OpenGL side?

Cheers

That's not true. There are extensions that are not part of the core GL specs that the Mesa driver could still add - bindless textures, for example. Check out near the bottom of this list: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/me...s/features.txt

It does mean, though, that now games should mostly work as they shouldn't be relying on non-core functionality or GL context versions that are higher than Mesa supports.

[baka0815]

They should have just called it version "apple-slash-red5-slash-27," just to screw with people who care about version numbers. Who cares?

Just to make that clear - my post was meant ironically.

Apple-Slash would be a nice version name. :-)

[ObscureAngelPT]

So, one question
Since Mesa 17 have now full OGL 4.5 on radeon SI, it means that, there is no extention left to make to be on-pair with the AMD GPUPRO?
From now on forward it will optimization only on the OpenGL side?

Cheers

[Tomin]

They shouldn't have changed to this dumb new version naming system. The old one was good, and I honestly find it easier to grasp. They shouldn't change what was never broken.

I don't understand, why the new "naming system" is dumb? They just skipped a few numbers and decided that major number is incremented every year. New releases will happen every few months as before and they don't have to come up with new milestones, which would be hard now that OpenGL is sort of done.

[Electric-Gecko]

They shouldn't have changed to this dumb new version naming system. The old one was good, and I honestly find it easier to grasp. They shouldn't change what was never broken.

[smitty3268]

They should've calles 17.0 14.0 instead. Then 17.2 would be 15.0 and 17.3 would be 16. That way the last version of 2017 would be 17.0 in Q4.
In 2018 they could just start with the new versioning scheme.

They should have just called it version "apple-slash-red5-slash-27," just to screw with people who care about version numbers. Who cares?

[baka0815]

Big change of version 17 is that versions 14, 15 and 16 are missing in action

They should've calles 17.0 14.0 instead. Then 17.2 would be 15.0 and 17.3 would be 16. That way the last version of 2017 would be 17.0 in Q4.
In 2018 they could just start with the new versioning scheme.

[dungeon]

Big change of version 17 is that versions 14, 15 and 16 are missing in action

[Erathostenes]

Yup, with Phoronix one can be up to date about everything related to open source, from simple changelog about a new release to complex dev stuff. Thank you Michael! I visit phoronix everyday. I even enable JS sometimes on this website to actually see the adds as those usually contain interesting tech

I've been reading Phoronix on a daily basis for Years now (without it we're lost! :-) ). Leeching for such a long period = payback time.

O.T. Havn't tried 17.0 yet, weekends 2do. Thanks fr Your great work Michael.

[danieru]

Then you really need to read Phoronix more as the version switching was talked about several times going back to when it was first proposed last year

Yup, with Phoronix one can be up to date about everything related to open source, from simple changelog about a new release to complex dev stuff. Thank you Michael! I visit phoronix everyday. I even enable JS sometimes on this website to actually see the adds as those usually contain interesting tech