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  • Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Could Use Some Help

    Phoronix: Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Could Use Some Help

    While the LLVMpipe driver is commonly used these days as a software fall-back driver on numerous Linux distributions in cases where no hardware GPU driver is available or working, the LLVMpipe state leaves a lot to be desired. In addition to it benefiting from any speed improvements, there's also lots of help it could use on implementing newer OpenGL support...

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    While it would be laudable to actually get this up to snuff, at this point it may be better to keep it as a fall back and focus on support of the hardware accelerated drivers. If Khronos has spent this last year working mainly on Vulkan, and I think they have, then OpenGL will remain at 4.5, and they will have a real chance to actually catch up.

    LLVMpipe can play catch up after that. Not to mention with SPIR-V coming to LLVM, an opportunity becomes available to do what Apple did with OpenGL emulation on top of OpenCL.

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