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| Crocus: Working On Gallium3D For Old Intel Graphics | Intel | 2021-03-24 |
| Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance | Mesa | 2021-01-01 |
| Mesa's Freedreno Gallium3D Now Exposes OpenGL 3.2 Support | Mesa | 2020-12-29 |
| Classic OSMesa Retires In Mesa 21.0 As The Worst Of The Software Rendering Paths | Mesa | 2020-12-11 |
| NIR-To-TGSI Support Added To Mesa 20.3 | Mesa | 2020-10-20 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Up And Running On Qualcomm's KGSL | Mesa | 2020-09-22 |
| Mesa Softpipe Set To See Better Performance, Introducing New NIR-To-TGSI Path | Mesa | 2020-08-26 |
| X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020 | X.Org | 2020-04-30 |
| Raspberry Pi Foundation Gets Back To Working On A Vulkan Driver - New Effort By Igalia | Raspberry Pi | 2020-01-31 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 V3D Driver Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformance | Mesa | 2020-01-17 |
| X.Org Server Development Hits A Nearly Two Decade Low | X.Org | 2020-01-04 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Adds OpenGL ES 3.2 Geometry Shader Support | Mesa | 2019-12-16 |
| Lima Gets Tiling While Vulkan Turnip Lands SSBO + Compute Shaders | Mesa | 2019-12-05 |
| Mesa 20.0 Lands A Load/Store Vectorizer As Latest "ACO" Backend Improvement | Mesa | 2019-11-26 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Lands OpenGL ES 3.1 Bits In Mesa 19.3-devel | Mesa | 2019-10-21 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Gets MSAA Working | Mesa | 2019-10-16 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1 | Mesa | 2019-10-11 |
| Igalia Is Working On "mediump" Support For Mesa To Help With OpenGL ES Performance | Mesa | 2019-10-03 |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Is Back To Seeing Activity | Mesa | 2019-09-27 |
| Broadcom's VC4/V3D Driver Developer Parts Ways To Join Google | Mesa | 2019-08-02 |
| Mesa Is About To Crack 2.7 Million Lines | Mesa | 2019-04-29 |
| GLAMOR Sees More Improvements For What Will Eventually Be X.Org Server 1.21 | X.Org | 2019-04-18 |
| Broadcom's V3D Gallium3D Driver Nears Working Compute Shader Support | Mesa | 2019-04-13 |
| Broadcom's V3D Gallium Driver Picks Up New Features Ahead Of Mesa 19.0 | Mesa | 2019-01-16 |
| The X.Org Server Continues Cruising Along As We Approach 2019 | X.Org | 2018-12-28 |
| V3D Driver Fixes Glaring Performance Bug, VC4 Working Towards Proper GPU Reset | Hardware | 2018-12-04 |
| VC4 & V3D Open-Source Drivers Continue Maturing At Broadcom | Free Software | 2018-10-31 |
| AMD's Marek Olšák Is Dominating Mesa Open-Source GPU Driver Development This Year | Mesa | 2018-09-12 |
| VC4 Gallium3D Gets Much Faster Texture Upload/Download Performance, Helping GLAMOR | Mesa | 2018-09-09 |
| V3D Gallium3D Driver Making Progress On OpenGL ES Conformance | Mesa | 2018-07-24 |
| V3D & VC4 Should Have Lower CPU Overhead, More Fixes | Mesa | 2018-06-26 |
| GNOME 3 Might Be Too Resource Hungry To Ever Run Nicely On The Raspberry Pi | GNOME | 2018-05-31 |
| VC5 Gallium3D Driver Becomes V3D, Enabled By Default In Mesa | Mesa | 2018-05-17 |
| A Work-In-Progress Vulkan Driver For The Raspberry Pi / VC4 | Vulkan | 2018-05-08 |
| VC5 Gallium3D Going To V3D, Ready To Turn On By Default | Mesa | 2018-05-03 |
| It's Looking Hopeful V3D DRM Driver Will Make It Into Linux 4.18 | Linux Kernel | 2018-05-01 |
| V3D DRM Driver Revised As It Works To Get Into The Mainline Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-04-24 |
| V3D DRM Driver Steps Towards Mainline Kernel, Renamed From VC5 | Linux Kernel | 2018-04-19 |
| Broadcom VC5 DRM Driver Might Soon Be On Its Way To The Mainline Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-04-17 |
| X.Org 2018 Elections Yield 54% Voter Turnout, Select Four New Board Members | X.Org | 2018-04-17 |
| Broadcom VC5 Driver Making Good Progress With Using AMDGPU's DRM Scheduler | Mesa | 2018-04-10 |
| Valve & RADV Developers Are Topping Contributions To Mesa This Year | Mesa | 2018-04-01 |
| Broadcom VC5 DRM Driver Might Make Use Of AMDGPU's Scheduler | Linux Kernel | 2018-03-31 |
| While Still Waiting For Broadcom VideoCore 5 To Surface, There Appears To Be VC6 | Hardware | 2018-03-28 |
| It's Time For X.Org Members To Cast Their 2018 Ballots | X.Org | 2018-03-22 |
| Six Candidates Are Vying For This Year's X.Org Foundation Board | X.Org | 2018-03-17 |
| Raspberry Pi Working On A "More Normal" Media Stack | Raspberry Pi | 2018-03-13 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Working On Polishing KMS Support, Continued VC5 Progress | Raspberry Pi | 2018-02-13 |
| VC5 Gallium3D Driver Is Onto Pushing More Triangles In Simulator | Mesa | 2018-01-09 |
| Broadcom's Open-Source VC5 OpenGL & Vulkan Support Improving | Mesa | 2018-01-04 |
| VC5 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Advancing | Mesa | 2017-12-11 |
| Even With Wayland Around, X.Org Had A Busy 2017 | X.Org | 2017-12-11 |
| VC4 & VC5 Drivers Get More Fixes Ahead Of The Holidays | Mesa | 2017-11-15 |
| VC5 Gallium3D OpenGL Driver Is Starting To Get Fit | Mesa | 2017-11-08 |
| Broadcom Bids To Snatch Qualcomm For $103 Billion | Hardware | 2017-11-06 |
| Broadcom's VC5 Gallium3D Now Supports MSAA, More OpenGL Functionality | Mesa | 2017-10-31 |
| Raspberry Pi 7" Touch Panel, SiI9234 To Be Supported By Linux 4.15 | Linux Kernel | 2017-10-12 |
| Initial Gallium3D VC5 Driver Merged Into Mesa | Mesa | 2017-10-10 |
| MESA_tile_raster_order Added To The OpenGL Registry | Mesa | 2017-10-10 |
| Eric Anholt Gets More Of The VC5 OpenGL Gallium3D Driver In Order | Mesa | 2017-10-03 |
| The State Of The VC4 Driver Stack, Early Work On VC5 | Hardware | 2017-09-21 |
| BCMV Driver Begins Development: Vulkan Driver For Broadcom VC5 | Mesa | 2017-09-05 |
| Work Begins On Kernel DRM Driver For BCM7268 With VC5 | Hardware | 2017-08-28 |
| VC5 Gallium3D Driver Close To Merging To Mainline Mesa | Mesa | 2017-08-22 |
| Broadcom Driver VC5 Instruction Scheduler Coming Together | Mesa | 2017-08-15 |
| VC4 Now Has Faster Window Movement On Raspbian | Mesa | 2017-08-07 |
| VC5 Driver Makes Strides For Future Broadcom GPU | Mesa | 2017-07-25 |
| VC5 Driver Development Continues, Raspbian Performance Still Being Tuned | Hardware | 2017-07-18 |
| Raspbian Still Being Tuned For Greater VC4 Performance | Mesa | 2017-07-11 |
| VC5 Gallium3D: A New Broadcom Open-Source Driver | Mesa | 2017-07-06 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Driver Working To Reduce Overhead, Android Native Fence Support | Raspberry Pi | 2017-06-27 |
| Raspberry Pi / VC4 Software Support Continues Improving | Raspberry Pi | 2017-06-20 |
| GLAMOR Updates Land In The X.Org Server, OpenGL ES Fallback | X.Org | 2017-05-18 |
| VC4 Raspberry Pi 3D Driver Development Has Been Busy This Spring | Raspberry Pi | 2017-05-13 |
| Meson Support Has Landed In The X.Org Server | X.Org | 2017-04-27 |
| VC4 Fencing, HDMI Runtime PM & More For This Raspberry Pi Driver | Raspberry Pi | 2017-04-17 |
| It's Becoming Easier To Write Linux DRM Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2017-04-11 |
| VC4 Raspberry Pi Driver Working On DMA-BUF Fencing | Raspberry Pi | 2017-04-11 |
| The Meson Build System Is Being Fitted For The X.Org Server | X.Org | 2017-03-27 |
| Eric Anholt Continues Tuning GLAMOR, Cleaning Up ARM CLCD Driver | Arm | 2017-03-21 |
| Keith Packard Comments On Valve Work | Linux Gaming | 2017-03-14 |
| Gallium3D VC4 Driver Being Ported To A Phone | Hardware | 2017-03-14 |
| HDMI Audio Patches Posted For Raspberry Pi's VC4 Driver | Raspberry Pi | 2017-02-07 |
| Raspberry Pi Gallium3D Driver Continues To Be Tweaked For Greater Performance | Mesa | 2017-01-31 |
| Faster Raspberry Pi X.Org Desktop Performance With NEON | X.Org | 2017-01-16 |
| VC4 Gallium3D Thread Switching Work, Reviewing On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2017-01-03 |
| VC4 Gallium3D Lands Some Minor Optimizations, 2016 Was Great For This RPi 3D Driver | Mesa | 2016-12-30 |
| X.Org Server Development Continues Trending Quite Low | X.Org | 2016-12-27 |
| VC4 Stepping Closer To Feature Parity With Original Raspberry Pi Driver | Raspberry Pi | 2016-12-19 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Driver Work On SDTV, HDMI Audio & More | Raspberry Pi | 2016-12-06 |
| Raspberry Pi's Open-Source VC4 Graphics Driver Seeing More Performance Work | Mesa | 2016-11-29 |
| Raspberry Pi's Desktop Likely Switching To Compton For Better Performance | Raspberry Pi | 2016-11-15 |
| Talk Of An ARM Vendor Open-Sourcing Their 3D Driver? | Arm | 2016-11-14 |
| Threading Support Is In The Works For Raspberry Pi's VC4 Open-Source GPU Driver | Mesa | 2016-11-13 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Works On ETC1 Support, Power Management Tweaks | Raspberry Pi | 2016-11-07 |
| HDMI Audio Support Being Worked On For Raspberry Pi VC4 | Raspberry Pi | 2016-10-24 |
| VC4 Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better Texture Upload Performance | Mesa | 2016-10-19 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Graphics Driver Working To Support QPU Shaders | Raspberry Pi | 2016-10-12 |
| X.Org's GLAMOR 2D Performance Continues To Be Tuned | X.Org | 2016-09-26 |
| Raspbian Likely To Use Firmware-Based KMS For Raspberry Pi As Temporary Measure | X.Org | 2016-09-19 |
| VC4 Raspberry Pi Driver Gets Job Shuffling For Faster OpenGL | Mesa | 2016-09-14 |
| Raspberry Pi Zero Will Likely Be Supported On Linux 4.9 | Hardware | 2016-08-29 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Gallium3D Makes More Progress With NIR, Camera DMA-BUF | Mesa | 2016-08-23 |
| Raspbian DRM Updated, DSI Driver Not Yet Ready For Upstream Due To Firmware Blob Issue | Hardware | 2016-08-15 |
| Lower Memory Use For The VC4 Raspberry Pi Gallium3D Driver | Mesa | 2016-08-08 |
| X.Org Server Development Continues Trending Lower | X.Org | 2016-07-16 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 DRM Changes For Linux 4.8 | Raspberry Pi | 2016-07-12 |
| Dirk Hohndel Is No Longer Intel's Chief Linux/OSS Technologist | Intel | 2016-07-06 |
| Wayland's Weston Nukes Its Raspberry Pi Backend/Renderer | Wayland | 2016-06-03 |
| Intel Loses Another Longtime Open-Source Graphics Driver Developer | Intel | 2016-05-12 |
| Raspberry Pi's VC4 DRM Driver In Linux 4.7 Will Bring DPI Panel Support | Raspberry Pi | 2016-04-14 |
| Raspberry Pi 3, Linux 4.6 & AMDGPU Were Popular Among Our 300+ Articles This Month | Premium | 2016-03-31 |
| Linux 4.6 To Offer Faster Raspberry Pi 3D Performance | Raspberry Pi | 2016-03-14 |
| XWayland Lands The GLAMOR X-Video Support | Wayland | 2016-03-11 |
| Raspberry Pi 3 Is Looking Towards Upstream Kernel Support | Raspberry Pi | 2016-03-03 |
| The VC4 Open-Source Driver Stack Will Work With The Raspberry Pi 3 | Raspberry Pi | 2016-03-03 |
| Raspbian Now Ships With Experimental Support For The New VC4 OpenGL Driver | Debian | 2016-02-09 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 DRM Driver Is Getting Runtime Power Management & GPU Reset | Raspberry Pi | 2016-02-09 |
| GLAMOR Is Getting More Cleanups In Aiming For Better Performance | X.Org | 2016-01-29 |
| X.Org Server Development Slows To Lowest Point In A Decade | X.Org | 2016-01-04 |
| Mesa Saw The Most Commits Last Year Since 2010 | Mesa | 2016-01-01 |
| Raspberry Pi 2 Support Being Tried For Linux 4.5 Kernel | Raspberry Pi | 2015-12-29 |
| Raspberry Pi 2 Code Getting Ready For Upstreaming In Linux Kernel | Raspberry Pi | 2015-12-16 |
| The Raspberry Pi Open-Source 3D Driver Still Has A Lot Of Work Ahead | Raspberry Pi | 2015-12-15 |
| Mesa 11.1 Will Likely Support The Raspberry Pi 3D Support In Linux 4.5 | Mesa | 2015-12-14 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 3D Acceleration Should Come To Linux 4.5 | Raspberry Pi | 2015-12-11 |
| Raspberry Pi VC4 Gallium3D Support Continues Marching Along | Mesa | 2015-12-08 |
| Are There Any Raspberry Pi 2 Benchmarks You'd Like To See? | Raspberry Pi | 2015-11-12 |
| X.Org Server Commit Process Opens Up To More Developers | X.Org | 2015-10-27 |
| Raspberry Pi KMS Driver Will Indeed Land For Linux 4.4 | Raspberry Pi | 2015-10-22 |
| Raspberry Pi KMS Driver Pull Request Sent For Linux 4.4 | Raspberry Pi | 2015-10-21 |
| Raspberry Pi KMS Driver Updated | Raspberry Pi | 2015-10-10 |
| Raspberry Pi KMS-Only, No-3D Driver Under Review | Raspberry Pi | 2015-08-13 |
| Raspberry Pi To Get Firmware Driver In Linux 4.3, Closer To DRM Driver Support | Raspberry Pi | 2015-08-12 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Enabled In Android Builds, VC4 Looks To Be Added | Mesa | 2015-06-09 |
| Raspberry Pi's VC4 Gallium3D Driver Switches To Using NIR | Mesa | 2015-04-02 |
| Intel Adds Mesa IR To NIR Translator & Makes Other NIR Improvements | Mesa | 2015-03-28 |
| Mesa Is At Nearly 1,500 Commits This Year | Mesa | 2015-03-26 |
| GLAMOR Starts Getting Improved For X.Org Server 1.18 | X.Org | 2015-03-25 |
| DRI3 Support Finally Added To AMD's Radeon X.Org Driver | X.Org | 2015-03-17 |
| QuIC Continues Contributing To Open-Source MDP DRM/KMS Driver | Hardware | 2015-03-06 |
| The Raspberry Pi VC4 Graphics Driver You Won't Find In Linux 4.0 | Linux Kernel | 2015-02-24 |
| The Raspberry Pi Gallium3D Driver Has Made Much Progress In Less Than A Year | Mesa | 2015-01-20 |
| Linux.Conf.Au 2015 Kicks Off In Auckland | Linux Events | 2015-01-12 |
| X.Org Server Saw More Code In 2014 Than 2013, But Its Heydays Are Over | X.Org | 2015-01-03 |
| Mesa Crosses 1.5 Million Lines Of Code, Highest Activity Since 2011 | Mesa | 2014-12-31 |
| NIR Has Been Revised As A New IR For Mesa | Mesa | 2014-12-18 |
| VC4 Gallium3D Adds DMA-BUF Support, Yields Working DRI3 | Mesa | 2014-12-18 |
| Raspberry Pi's Gallium3D Driver Could Now Run Significantly Faster | Mesa | 2014-12-17 |
| GLAMOR Acceleration Continues To Be Cleaned Up | X.Org | 2014-10-30 |
