Cairo Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0

Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Categories

Computers GPUs / Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards CPUs / Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

Cairo Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0

Written by Michael Larabel in X.Org on 14 September 2017 at 08:53 AM EDT. Add A Comment

The Cairo 2D vector graphics library used by GTK, Firefox, WebKit, and many other programs finally has an OpenGL ES 3.0 back-end merged.

Cairo supports many different backends from OpenGL to DirectFB to outputting as SVG/PDF/PostScript files as well as Skia, Direct2D, OpenVG, and other less notable code paths. Finally, OpenGL ES 3.0 is now supported by mainline Cairo.

Bryce Harrington has extended the OpenGL ES support to now handle v3.0 including support for multi-sampled render buffers and other features.

This should be good for those using Cairo on GLES3-capable mobile devices. More details via this commit.

Add A Comment

Adam Jackson On The State Of The X.Org Server In 2020

It's Time To Admit It: The X.Org Server Is Abandonware

X.Org Is Getting Their Cloud / Continuous Integration Costs Under Control

Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference

Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.