Collabora's Graphics Work So Far In 2017, They Are Working On Soft FP64 For Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Collabora's Graphics Work So Far In 2017, They Are Working On Soft FP64 For Mesa

Collabora developer and longtime X.Org/Wayland contributor Daniel Stone has written a blog post detailing some of the recent and ongoing projects being led by the consulting firm when it comes to open-source graphics...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Collabora-2017-Graphics-March

[indepe]

I like the sound of this: "... making it possible to write Vulkan-based compositors for the first time."

[smitty3268]

the work on the Intel Mesa shader cache

I think you mean the radeonSI Mesa shader cache. The Intel bits have been dropped for now until someone from Intel decides to pick them up.

[Michael]

I think you mean the radeonSI Mesa shader cache. The Intel bits have been dropped for now until someone from Intel decides to pick them up.

No, Arceri left Collabora and joined Valve where he is now working on the RadeonSI shader cache. Arceri while he was at Collabora had been the one pushing the Intel shader cache effort due to Intel's relationship with Collabora.

[smitty3268]

No, Arceri left Collabora and joined Valve where he is now working on the RadeonSI shader cache. Arceri while he was at Collabora had been the one pushing the Intel shader cache effort due to Intel's relationship with Collabora.

Ok, fair enough. In that case, it should say Collabora *was* involved with that project then, since they aren't anymore.

/nitpicking

[Michael]

Ok, fair enough. In that case, it should say Collabora *was* involved with that project then, since they aren't anymore.

/nitpicking

I left it that way since I don't know if Collabora will end up re-tasking someone else to work on the Intel shader cache, etc.

[liam]

I want a general purpose (so it can handle fonts), 2d drawing library that accelerates both drawing and rasterization.
Just target vulkan, forget trying to wedge in gl.

Edit: There was a dev at igalia who was working on a method to use gl, iirc, tesselation and batching, to accelerate rasterization.

[andrei_me]

Sometimes I confuse Collabora with Igalia, both work on similar projects :P