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DRI3 Improvements Land In Mesa Git

Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 17 November 2015 at 11:29 AM EST. 6 Comments

A few improvements for handling Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3 (DRI3) have landed in Mesa's Git code-base.

There is now EGL DRI3 X11 support, which was implemented using a new DRI3 helper library. With that helper library having landed, the GLX DRI3 code was adapted to make use of it too.

With today's DRI3 push in Mesa, EGL/X11 DRI3 code was also hooked up to implement EGL_KHR_image_pixmap support.

For the performance impact of using DRI3, see our recent DRI3 vs. DRI2 Radeon comparison. DRI3 is also a requirement for Vulkan support on the X.Org Server.

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