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@elanthis
Whats your opinion on the Mesa implementation?
@elanthis
Whats your opinion on the Mesa implementation?
I am impressed with the general speed of development on Mesa, specially from the Intel team lately, and I enjoy keeping up on the git changesets. I want to make clear that while I very strongly despise the Intel Windows GL driver, I harbor no disrespect for the Intel Linux driver team. Seems like all good work so far.
I have been mulling getting a small Mac Mini like machine with Ivy Bridge (maybe the Giada i53 if it's available soon) specifically for Linux as I'd like to do some porting work, so I'll be experimenting with Mesa's features and quality quite a bit then. If I find problems there, though, export bug reports rather than forum bitching.
The only problem I'm aware of with Intel's Linux support right now is that I'd really like Intel to switch to Gallium, so that any "better than OpenGL but not D3D" API/state-tracker experiments I might decide to try could actually be done with Intel hardware and not just softpipe/llvmpipe.
[edit: I can't remember if you're with AMD or not, but if you are, I also had good experiences with r600. it was definitely very buggy and the DRI/Mesa model makes it way too easy for bugs to cause kernel oopses, but this was over a year ago, so again I don't have an educated opinion on today's state of the driver.]
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