Mesa Grew By Nearly 250,000 Lines Of Code In 2017 Across 10k Commits

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa Grew By Nearly 250,000 Lines Of Code In 2017 Across 10k Commits

For those wondering Mesa's rate of change last year while adding in many OpenGL 4.5~4.6 features, a lot of Vulkan driver activity, countless performance optimizations, and the plethora of other work that took place in 2017, here are some numbers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-3D-Activity-2017

[cl333r]

Please also report on the number of freckles on devs faces compared to last year.

[Leopard]

Please also report on the number of freckles on devs faces compared to last year.

[timofonic]

Thanks for the info, really. But...

Why is VMware the biggest contributor? I don't get it. They code there their drivers for paravirtualization, right? I can't understand why that code makes them the biggest contributor, maybe they do some extra stuff but I'm still unable to look at that stuff fastly.

It would be nice the next time to put a summary about what they were coding all these time... :P

[shmerl]

It would be nice the next time to put a summary about what they were coding all these time... :P

Good point.

[Nille_kungen]

Thanks for the info, really. But...

Why is VMware the biggest contributor? I don't get it. They code there their drivers for paravirtualization, right? I can't understand why that code makes them the biggest contributor, maybe they do some extra stuff but I'm still unable to look at that stuff fastly.

It would be nice the next time to put a summary about what they were coding all these time... :P

Gallium3D was started by Tungsten Graphics that later was acquired by VMware.

https://www.mesa3d.org/intro.html

IIUC they use it for their virtual GPUs

[timofonic]

Gallium3D was started by Tungsten Graphics that later was acquired by VMware.

https://www.mesa3d.org/intro.html

IIUC they use it for their virtual GPUs

Oh, I see. Thanks a lot for the clarification!

Yet they are unable to provide DirectX 12 support on their virtualization products? Why?