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[smitty3268]

Remember that Zen is meant to be used in servers and enterprise situations, and it's quite valuable for some organizations to be able to compile their...

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I tried telling bridgman the same thing a couple weeks ago, and they just don't want to hear it. They have a plan (it's secret though), and anyone who...

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I'm honestly more interested in hearing that their vulkan driver can run on an upstream kernel than having it open sourced, but at least they're starting...

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Anyone who needs to run an old x86 machine should really be using a specialized distro anyway, not generic Fedora.

DO IT!

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Instructions (and a place to record results) are here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/P..._Mesa_glthread

It shouldn't...

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I don't think this should affect gallium nine at all. Sounds like you're just seeing random variation....

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Ok, first of all let me apologize. I was getting frustrated last night and shouldn't have taken it out in these forums.

Now, let me assure...

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It's difficult to imagine a more stupid comment than this.

If you actually looked into the matter, you would have seen that:

• The AMD proprietary

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Which part do you think isn't complete?...

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That's good, because you're wrong. That's not the way this works.

You can't prove a negative. Feel free to confirm for yourself that the...

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I'm not clear what you're even asking. You're saying that making synchronous api calls asynchronous could slow things down just because your cpu is too...

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No offense, but some of your comments in this thread don't make much sense.

The wide range of hardware, games, settings, and how people define...

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I also suspect that played a very real part in their decision making process.

However, ultimately I think they decided to abandon the desktop...

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I don't know the answer to that one, but I suspect it might. I think there are places in modesetting where they have to go to great lengths to work around...

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Firefox long ago added their own internal memory allocator (forked from jemalloc) so this won't get hit at all. Mesa might actually be 1 app that improves...

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ASTC is far more flexible and allows much higher levels of compression (with a corresponding quality tradeoff) which is why it's so important for mobile/embedded...

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Intel was never directly involved with Gallium. There was an i915 driver that Google created for their Chromebooks that you might be thinking of.
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Right, but building it on top of Vulkan would take a couple years, and then another couple years to switch the driver. Using gallium the hard part is...

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That works as long as you're happy to compile your own 4.11 kernel and backport all relevant bug and security fixes yourself. It's a pretty big blocker...

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Other than the fact that it would take years of development to build such a stack, while Gallium is already done...

Though more...