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[s_j_newbury]

Are you sure about this? Consumer Desktop PCs aren't the market they once were, sitting at your desk with your keyboard, mouse and monitor is almost...

[s_j_newbury]

duby229, this is exactly my concern. I also happen to use the IVB Vulkan driver, but that was never claimed to be officially supported, so it's a slightly...

[s_j_newbury]

I guess people might have time on their hands in the current climate. I'm happy to contribute to bringing the i965g driver up to date, but I'm not the...

[s_j_newbury]

The initial release dates are a little misleading since Haswell was last refreshed in 2015, and I'm sure many systems would have been sold after that...

[s_j_newbury]

Bug fixes in shared code? It *will* bit-rot out of tree. How many out-of-tree Mesa driver drivers are maintained? Overhead and additional system complexity...

[s_j_newbury]

Sorry, but as you allude to this is nonsense. "Performance" is arguably even *more* important on older hardware, especially mobile devices like...

[s_j_newbury]

Ouch! My 2012 Ivybridge is going to be slower than the dual AMD K7 system I used 20 years ago!