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Mesa 20.2 Articles & Reviews

Radeon RADV+ACO Vulkan Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 20.2   Display Drivers   2020-07-13

Mesa 20.2 Linux & Open-Source News

Intel Tiger Lake Xe Graphics On Linux 5.12 Git, Mesa 21.1-devel   Intel   2021-03-05
Mesa 20.3.1 Released With Several RADV Fixes, Other Driver Updates   Mesa   2020-12-16
Radeon RX 6900 XT Launches As Flagship Card With Open-Source Drivers But Very Limited Availability   Radeon   2020-12-08
A Look At Linux 5.10 + Mesa 21.0-dev On Intel "Tiger Lake" Xe Graphics   Intel   2020-12-07
Linux 5.9.12 Is In Good Shape With The AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series   Radeon   2020-12-07
Radeon RX 6800 "Sienna Cichlid" Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git   Radeon   2020-11-19
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.5 Vulkan Driver Brings Radeon RX 6000 Series Support   Radeon   2020-11-19
Radeon Software for Linux 20.45 Driver Released With RX 6800 Series Support   Radeon   2020-11-18
Mesa 20.2.2 Released With A Random Assortment Of Fixes   Mesa   2020-11-07
LLVMpipe Is Now Officially Conformant With OpenGL 4.5   Mesa   2020-10-30
Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default   Fedora   2020-10-27
Ubuntu 20.10 Released With GNOME 3.38, Active Directory Installer Integration   Ubuntu   2020-10-22
NGG Appears To Be In Good Shape For RDNA 2 / RX 6000 Series   Radeon   2020-10-17
Mesa 20.2.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes   Mesa   2020-10-14
RADV's ACO Back-End Can Be A Massive Win For Vulkan Compute - Not Just Gaming   Radeon   2020-10-02
Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support   Mesa   2020-09-29
Mesa 20.1.8 Released While Waiting For Mesa 20.2   Mesa   2020-09-17
Ray-Tracing Support For AMDGPU LLVM Back-End Lands For RDNA 2   Radeon   2020-09-16
Mesa Refactors Disk Cache - Working Towards Windows Support   Mesa   2020-09-11
AMD Sends In More Radeon "Navi 2" Updates For Linux 5.10 Kernel   Radeon   2020-09-04
Mesa 20.2 Aiming For Release Next Week As Big Advancement For Open-Source GPU Drivers   Mesa   2020-09-03
Mesa 20.1.7 Brings OpenBSD Fixes, New RadeonSI Workaround   Mesa   2020-09-02
RADV Lands "Big Page" Optimization For Navi 2   Radeon   2020-09-02
AMD ACO Back-End Sees Thorough Documentation Added, Explanation Of Architecture   Mesa   2020-09-01
Mesa 20.2 Should Be Released In About Two Weeks - LLVMpipe OpenGL 4.5 Enabled   Mesa   2020-08-28
Mesa 20.1.6 Released With Several Radeon Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2020-08-20
OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2   Mesa   2020-08-17
LLVMpipe Has Patches Bringing It To OpenGL 4.5 Support   Mesa   2020-08-17
Mesa 20.2-RC2 Released With Many Fixes For RadeonSI + RADV Drivers   Mesa   2020-08-12
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel Support In Mesa 20.3   Intel   2020-08-12
Radeon Software for Linux 20.30 Released   Radeon   2020-08-07
Mesa 20.2 Development Ends After Many New Features Land   Mesa   2020-08-06
Open-Source GPU Driver Updates Sent In For Linux 5.9 From Sienna Cichlid To Rocket Lake   Linux Kernel   2020-08-06
Mesa 20.1.5 Released For The Latest Stable Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2020-08-05
RadeonSI Resorts To Disabling SDMA For GFX9/Vega Due To APU Issues   Radeon   2020-08-05
RADV ACO Back-End Begins Tackling Navi 2 / GFX10.3 Support   Radeon   2020-08-04
Changes Expected For The Linux 5.9 Kernel From Intel DG1 To AMD Navi 2 To New CPU Capabilities   Linux Kernel   2020-08-02
Rust Maybe Coming To The Linux Kernel, Other Open-Source Milestones For July   Phoronix   2020-08-02
ACO Radeon Shader Back-End Adds Unit Testing Framework To Help Test Optimizations   Radeon   2020-07-30
AMD "Navy Flounder" Support Merged Into Mesa 20.2   Radeon   2020-07-28
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2020-07-22
RadeonSI Lands Bits In Mesa 20.2 For Better Dealing With GPU Virtualization   Mesa   2020-07-22
AMDVLK 2020.Q3.1 Vulkan Driver Brings More Performance Tuning   Radeon   2020-07-21
Radeon R600 Gallium3D NIR Backend Continues Advancing   Radeon   2020-07-20
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Enables Working FP16 Support   Mesa   2020-07-18
Mesa 20.2's Nouveau Enables HMM, OpenCL SVM Now Supported   Mesa   2020-07-14
RADV Driver Lands Support For Vulkan Extended Dynamic State   Radeon   2020-07-13
Mesa 20.1.3 Brings More Fixes To The Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2020-07-09
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Midgard Multi-Sampling Support   Mesa   2020-07-08
LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs   Mesa   2020-07-06
Intel Rocket Lake Graphics Support Ready For Liftoff With Linux 5.9   Intel   2020-07-02
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0   Mesa   2020-07-02
RadeonSI Switches To Make Greater Wave64 Use On Navi   Radeon   2020-07-01
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.6 Brings More Performance Tuning   Radeon   2020-06-30
Freedreno Lands On-Disk Shader Cache Support In Mesa 20.2   Mesa   2020-06-27
Mesa 20.2 RADV Driver Flips On ACO By Default For Quicker Game Load Times, Better Performance   Mesa   2020-06-25
Mesa 20.1.2 Release Led By Radeon Driver Fixes   Mesa   2020-06-24
RADV ACO SMEM Patches Land - Taking ACO To Feature Parity With AMDGPU LLVM   Mesa   2020-06-24
Mesa 20.2 Gets A Release Schedule With Hopes Of Shipping By End Of August   Mesa   2020-06-24
Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Tessellation Shader Support   Vulkan   2020-06-23
RADV Vulkan Driver Adds New Workaround For Path of Exile Game   Radeon   2020-06-23
Intel DG1 Graphics Card Support Lands In Mesa 20.2 For OpenGL / Vulkan   Intel   2020-06-23
Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For Sienna Cichlid   Mesa   2020-06-19
AMD Lands VCN 3.0 Video Encode Support For Navi 2 / Sienna Cichlid   Radeon   2020-06-18
Zink Is Now OpenGL 3.0 Complete For Generic GL Over Vulkan   Mesa   2020-06-18
RADV+ACO Lands FP16 Features - One Step Closer To Making ACO The Default   Radeon   2020-06-18
Intel Vulkan Driver Adds Pipeline Creation Cache Control Extension   Intel   2020-06-17
GFX1030 Target Merged Into LLVM 11 AMDGPU Back-End For Navi 2   Radeon   2020-06-16
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Now Exposes GLSL 1.30   Mesa   2020-06-16
Radeon RADV Driver Merge Request Opened To Use ACO By Default   Radeon   2020-06-15
Mesa 20.0.8 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2020-06-12
Mesa 20.1.1 Released With The Open-Source Driver Stack Being In Good Shape   Mesa   2020-06-10
Sienna Cichlid Support For RadeonSI Merged Into Mesa 20.2   Radeon   2020-06-10
Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For NVIDIA Volta / Turing GPUs   Nouveau   2020-06-09
Radeon Navi 2 "Sienna Cichlid" Published For AMD's OpenGL Driver   Radeon   2020-06-08
Linux 5.8 Will Light Up The Adreno 405 / 640 / 650 GPUs On Open-Source   Hardware   2020-06-08
SVGA Gallium3D Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1 Support   Mesa   2020-06-05
RADV Enables Zero vRAM Option For All Games With VKD3D   Radeon   2020-06-03
Mesa 20.1 Released With Numerous Linux Graphics Driver Improvements   Mesa   2020-05-27
Mesa 20.1 Features Include Big Improvements For Open-Source Intel, Radeon Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2020-05-27
Intel's Mesa Drivers Add A Simple But Effective Helper For Dealing With Incomplete Bug Reports   Intel   2020-05-21
DXVK 1.7 Released - Makes Use Of New Vulkan Extensions, Game Fixes   Vulkan   2020-05-16
Mesa 20.1-RC3 Released With Another Week Worth Of Fixes Plus Intel Rocket Lake Support   Mesa   2020-05-14
Mesa 20.2 Picks Up A New Disk Cache: TGSI-To-NIR Caching   Mesa   2020-05-13
RADV ACO Adds A Version Hack/Workaround For An Extra 2~5% Boost In SotTR   Radeon   2020-05-13
Zink GL-Over-Vulkan Now Supports Conditional Rendering - Stepping Towards OpenGL 3.0   Mesa   2020-05-11
RadeonSI Driver Now Supports AMD Trusted Memory Zone   Radeon   2020-05-11
Intel Rocket Lake Platform Support Added To Mesa 20.2   Intel   2020-05-09
Con Kolivas Fixes Up GUI-Related Stalls In Mesa   Mesa   2020-05-08
Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support   Mesa   2020-05-06
Mesa 20.1 Feature Development Ends With RC1 Released   Mesa   2020-04-29
Mesa "Vallium" - Software/CPU-Based Vulkan Based On LLVMpipe   Vulkan   2020-04-24