What Do You Want From Linux GPU Drivers In 2010?

[FireBurn]

afaik gallium supports opengl1.4 and 2.0

I think it's OpenGL ES it supports not plain old OpenGL

[castlefox]

But first you need game developers to start better supporting Linux...

You mean you want a native install in linux?

I would think that openGL3.x would be the first steps to better stupporting linux

[?John?]

Good question, but easy one

FOSS drivers:

• complete KMS & Gallium3D

binary blobs:

• deprecation and reassigning freed resources to improve FOSS code

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly a FOSS zealot, it's just that the whole "practical experience" thing confirmed all the objections anyone ever had against binary blobs beyond any doubt.

[deanjo]

You mean you want a native install in linux?

I would think that openGL3.x would be the first steps to better stupporting linux

I really don't think openGL 3.x support is what is holding back game developers on linux. Various levels of openGL have been supported through the years equal to their DX counterparts and that still didn't mean more games on linux. openGL is just one small part in the decision to port and develop in linux.

[Pfanne]

I think it's OpenGL ES it supports not plain old OpenGL

the 300g driver supports opengl2.1
so im pretty sure we have opengl 1.4 support in gallium

[Louise]

One Gallium driver to rule them all!

Or just R700 Classic MESA:

1. power management
2. video playback
3. GLSL

[Tares]

ATI/fglrx :
1. Video Acceleration
2. OpenGL/Xrender performance increase.
3. Better support for hon :P

[darkbasic]

[ATI]
1) Finish power management (avoid corruptions)
5) Start working on r600g
7) Publish (?) r8xx 2D support
8) 3D for r8xx

[Gallium]
1) Accelerate H264 decoding

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(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 characters. Are you happy!? -.- )

[castlefox]

I really don't think openGL 3.x support is what is holding back game developers on linux. Various levels of openGL have been supported through the years equal to their DX counterparts and that still didn't mean more games on linux. openGL is just one small part in the decision to port and develop in linux.

I know that might not always = more games in linux.

Better opengl3.x support would be great because a game developer wont make a 3.x game if there is no hardware out there for consumers to play the game on.

I would think having more game developers familiar with open gl would be better than dx only.

[FireBurn]

I'd like to be able to play Warcraft 3 under wine on either i965 driver or the radeon driver without software rendering fallbacks