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RadeonSI NIR Benchmarks Show Great Progress With Mesa 20.0   Display Drivers   2019-12-06
Running The RadeonSI NIR Back-End With Mesa 19.1 Git   Display Drivers   2019-02-10
Testing Out Mesa's GLSL-To-TGSI Translator   Display Drivers   2011-07-21

TGSI Linux & Open-Source News

Mesa 24.0 Receives Further TGSI-To-NIR Conversion Work For AMD RadeonSI   Radeon   2024-01-02
The Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Improvements For OpenGL, WineD3D Apps/Games   Mesa   2023-06-13
VMware SVGA Graphics Driver Switches To NIR By Default   Mesa   2023-06-12
The Old Radeon "R600g" Gallium3D Driver Drops Its TGSI Code Path   Radeon   2023-04-27
The Old Radeon "R600" Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Now Enables SPIR-V   Radeon   2023-01-02
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Switches To Modern NIR Backend By Default   Radeon   2022-09-23
Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2022-09-20
Mesa 22.2-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA3 & Intel Alchemist Primed, Vulkan Additions   Mesa   2022-08-03
Mesa's Radeon R600g Driver Adds NIR Support For Pre-Evergreen GPUs   Mesa   2022-08-01
Rewritten NIR Code For Old Radeon "R600" Linux Driver Improves Performance In 2022   Radeon   2022-06-22
More Old GLSL Code Is Gutted From Mesa 22.2   Mesa   2022-06-06
Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver   Mesa   2022-05-18
Mesa 22.2 Continues Modernizing With More GLSL IR Code Replaced By NIR   Mesa   2022-05-16
Mesa 22.2 Lands The Big Removal Of Old GLSL-To-TGSI Path, Now Always Going Through NIR   Mesa   2022-05-05
VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Getting NIR'ed   Mesa   2022-05-05
Nouveau Switches Over To NIR Backend By Default   Nouveau   2022-04-30
Open-Source R600g Driver For Old AMD GPUs Is Seeing New Activity To Improve GPU Compute   Radeon   2022-04-27
Mesa 22.0.2 Released With Many Intel / Radeon / Zink Fixes   Mesa   2022-04-22
Mesa 22.1-rc2 Released With Many Zink, Intel, AMD Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-04-21
Mesa Prepares To Drop Old GLSL-To-TGSI - Big Code Removal, Win For Performance & Fixes   Mesa   2022-04-20
R600 Gallium3D Driver For Old Radeon GPUs To See Rewritten NIR Backend   Radeon   2022-04-15
Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen   Mesa   2022-04-14
Mesa's Virgl Preparing To Transition To Using NIR Over TGSI   Virtualization   2022-02-20
NVIDIA GeForce FX / 6 / 7 Series GPUs Get Notable Open-Source Driver Improvement In 2022   NVIDIA   2022-02-16
Etnaviv Strips Out Its TGSI Backend In Favor Of NIR   Mesa   2022-02-13
Mesa 21.3.3 Released With Fixes For Old ATI R300~R500 GPUs, RADV Fixes Too   Mesa   2021-12-29
Radeon R300 Driver Lands NIR-To-TGSI Code, Old NVIDIA Driver Eyes It Too   Mesa   2021-12-10
Radeon Linux Driver Has A Huge Optimization Two Decades Later For ATI R300~R500 GPUs   Mesa   2021-12-09
Etnaviv Gallium3D Switches Over To NIR By Default   Mesa   2021-11-08
Nearly Two Decades Later, ATI Radeon R300 Linux Driver Sees Occasional Improvement   Radeon   2021-10-01
Intel i915g Mesa Driver Now Goes Goes Through NIR, Fixes Some Past Test Failures   Intel   2021-06-18
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Flips On OpenGL 4.5 For NIR Backend   Radeon   2021-03-03
Mesa's R600 Driver Nears Feature Complete NIR Support For Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series   Radeon   2021-01-20
Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2020-12-03
NIR-To-TGSI Support Added To Mesa 20.3   Mesa   2020-10-20
Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support   Mesa   2020-09-29
Open-Source Vivante Driver In Some Cases Outperforming Proprietary Driver   Mesa   2020-09-21
Mesa Softpipe Set To See Better Performance, Introducing New NIR-To-TGSI Path   Mesa   2020-08-26
R600 Gallium3D Now Has Compute Shaders Working With NIR   Radeon   2020-08-10
Mesa 20.2 Development Ends After Many New Features Land   Mesa   2020-08-06
Mesa 20.2 Picks Up A New Disk Cache: TGSI-To-NIR Caching   Mesa   2020-05-13
R600 Gallium3D Driver Lands Tesselation Support In Time For Mesa 20.1   Mesa   2020-04-28
LLVMpipe Tessellation Shader Support Is Now Working - Runs Unigine Heaven   Mesa   2020-02-28
Nouveau Gallium3D Finally Seeing Mesa Shader Disk Cache For Faster Game Load Times   Nouveau   2020-02-17
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1   Mesa   2020-02-10
Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support   Intel   2020-01-24
Mesa's NIR Linker Taking On More Duties - Further Enhancing Linker Speed   Mesa   2020-01-08
AMD Drops TGSI Support From Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver   Radeon   2020-01-07
Gallium3D's Software Rasterizers Are Close To Having OpenGL Tessellation Support   Mesa   2019-12-30
Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU   Mesa   2019-12-27
Mesa's LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Driver Now Uses NIR By Default   Mesa   2019-12-21
RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs   Mesa   2019-12-10
Mesa Devs Discuss Potentially Dropping Non-Gallium Drivers Or Forking Code For Gallium   Mesa   2019-12-04
Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Lands NIR Support Plus Radeon R600g NIR Support Is Forthcoming   Mesa   2019-11-28
Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees "Mega Cleanup" For NIR In Mesa 19.3   Mesa   2019-10-18
Mesa 19.2 Released With Navi Support, Much Improved Intel Gallium3D   Mesa   2019-09-25
Nouveau Finally Lands SPIR-V Support As Part Of OpenCL Push   Nouveau   2019-09-21
TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI   Mesa   2019-08-12
Working OpenCL Through Gallium3D Clover With LLVM To SPIR-V Conversion   Mesa   2019-05-13
Intel Iris Driver Gets ~5% Performance Boost With Direct3D 9 Support On Gallium Nine   Intel   2019-03-26
Nouveau NIR Support Lands In Mesa 19.1 Git   Nouveau   2019-03-17
NIR Improvements Land In Mesa 19.1, Helping RadeonSI & Intel   Mesa   2019-03-13
Nouveau NIR Support Slated To Land In Mesa 19.1 Over The Days Ahead   Nouveau   2019-03-12
Intel's New Driver Is Now Working With Gallium's Direct3D 9 State Tracker   Intel   2019-03-09
Mesa 19.1 Lands Gallium Nine Support For NIR, Opens Up Intel Iris Support   Mesa   2019-03-06
Gallium3D's OpenCL "Clover" Begins Seeing New Activity Land For Mesa 19.1   Mesa   2019-02-27
Gallium Nine With NIR Is Now Running Most D3D9 Games "Flawlessly"   Mesa   2019-02-20
RadeonSI Gets NIR Improvements, Enabled By Default For Civilization VI   Radeon   2019-02-19
Gallium Nine Is Working On NIR Support So It Can Be Used With Intel Iris, Zink Vulkan   Mesa   2019-02-08
Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees Shaders Ported From TGSI To NIR For Capable Drivers   Mesa   2019-02-01
Freedreno Lands An A2xx NIR Backend, Other Improvements For Mesa 19.0   Mesa   2019-01-23
Freedreno Gets Patches For A2xx NIR Backend   Mesa   2018-12-20
Gallium Clover With SPIR-V & NIR Opening Up New Compute Options Inside Mesa   Mesa   2018-10-01
Intel Iris Gallium3D Forming As Their Future OpenGL Driver, Promising Early Results   Intel   2018-09-27
Mesa 18.1.1 Released With Many OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-06-01
NIR Compile Times Are Being Lowered Thanks To Latest Mesa Patches   Mesa   2018-04-10
Uniform Packing For RadeonSI NIR, Helps Reduce CPU Overhead   Mesa   2018-03-14
SPIR-V Support For Gallium3D's Clover Is Closer To Reality   Mesa   2018-02-22
Nouveau's NIR Support Inches Closer To TGSI Quality   Nouveau   2018-02-21
RadeonSI Now Offers NIR Shader Cache Support   Radeon   2018-02-20
Gallium3D Now Supports NIR Shader Disk Cache   Mesa   2018-02-10
RadeonSI NIR Gets Compute Shader Support   Radeon   2018-02-02
Dead Island Should Now Work With The Gallium3D Drivers   Mesa   2018-01-17
Tessellation Shaders Land For RadeonSI NIR Backend   Radeon   2018-01-05
ARB_get_program_binary Implementation Lands In Core Mesa, Intel Driver   Mesa   2017-12-08
David Airlie Continues With Holiday Improvements For R600g   Mesa   2017-12-07
16-Bit Storage, variablePointers Land For ANV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2017-12-06
The Top Mesa News Of 2017   Mesa   2017-12-03
Gallium3D Gets Patches For ARB_get_program_binary, Complementing Intel's Work   Mesa   2017-11-28
Mesa Drivers' Use Of Multiple IRs, Gallium3D With NIR   Mesa   2017-08-27
RadeonSI May Eventually Switch To NIR Completely   Mesa   2017-08-25
16-bit Support Being Worked On For Intel ANV, Gallium3D TGSI   Mesa   2017-08-24
Freedreno Gallium3D Enables NIR By Default   Mesa   2017-05-23
ARB_gl_spirv / NIR Support Being Worked On For RadeonSI   Mesa   2017-05-23
Today Is The Last Day Of Feature Development For Mesa 17.1   Mesa   2017-04-14
Nouveau Gets Patches For OpenGL AZDO ARB_shader_ballot   Nouveau   2017-04-08
ARB_shader_ballot Lands For RadeonSI Mesa 17.1   Radeon   2017-04-05
Nouveau TGSI Shader Cache Enabled In Mesa 17.1 Git   Mesa   2017-03-23
Arceri Is Working To Further Improve Mesa's Shader Cache Startup Performance   Mesa   2017-03-12
Nouveau Patch For Enabling The GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache   Mesa   2017-03-11
RadeonSI On-Disk Shader Cache Lands In Mesa Git   Mesa   2017-03-02
RadeonSI Shader Cache May Be Flipped On By Default   Radeon   2017-02-23
GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache Lands In Mesa For R600g/RadeonSI   AMD   2017-02-22
R600/Radeon TGSI Shader Cache Gets Closer To Merging   Mesa   2017-02-20
R600/RadeonSI GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache Revised   Mesa   2017-02-13
TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache For Mesa: Caching Comes To R600g/RadeonSI   Mesa   2017-02-07
Mesa 17.0-RC3 Released, Final Expected This Friday   Mesa   2017-02-06
Microsoft Open-Sources DirectX Shader Compiler   Microsoft   2017-01-23
Mesa 13.0 RC2 Released With ANV, RADV, Wayland Fixes   Mesa   2016-10-24
RadeonSI Now Uses The HSA ABI For Some Compute Shaders   Radeon   2016-09-17
Fun Friday For RadeonSI: Laying 64-Bit Integers, ARB_query_buffer_object   Mesa   2016-09-16
Raspberry Pi VC4 Gallium3D Makes More Progress With NIR, Camera DMA-BUF   Mesa   2016-08-23
RadeonSI Compute Shader Patches Revised   Mesa   2016-04-13
Gallium3D Is Getting Closer To Support NIR As An Alternate IR   Mesa   2016-03-27
RadeonSI Quietly Landed A Shader Cache As A Last Feature For Mesa 11.2   Radeon   2016-02-23
OpenSWR High-Performance Software Rasterizer Revised For Mesa   Intel   2016-02-17
Nouveau Continues Making Progress On Compute Support, SPIR-V   Nouveau   2016-01-30
The Linux Graphics Talks For FOSDEM 2016   Linux Events   2015-12-02
Work Moves Along On An LLVM TGSI Back-End For Nouveau   Nouveau   2015-11-20
VirGL VirtIO 3D GPU Driver Added To Gallium3D   Mesa   2015-10-23
Experimental Patches Add NIR As Alternate IR To Gallium3D   Mesa   2015-10-19
Freedreno Gallium3D Adds NIR Compiler Support   Mesa   2015-04-05
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
A Load Of RadeonSI Commits To Kick Off Monday Morning   Mesa   2015-03-16
Learning More About The Intel Vulkan Driver, Linux Vulkan Plans   Valve   2015-03-12
NIR Has Been Revised As A New IR For Mesa   Mesa   2014-12-18
Wine Developers Not Yet Convinced By Direct3D 9 In Mesa's Gallium   WINE   2014-11-14
Mesa's IR Might Get Changed Around Amid Discussions   Mesa   2014-05-29
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Now Exposes GLSL 3.30   Mesa   2014-04-24
Understanding The New & Faster A3XX Compiler   Mesa   2014-02-06
The Current State Of VIrtIO-Based Virgil3D   Mesa   2013-11-10
Freedreno Gallium3D Sees New Activity   Mesa   2013-11-02
Gallium3D OpenCL Is Starting To Show Progress   AMD   2013-09-26
Virgil: Experimental Virtual 3D Support For QEMU   Free Software   2013-07-18
Research Underway With QEMU 3D Support   Mesa   2013-06-20
X.Org Has Some Interesting Summer GSoC Projects   X.Org   2013-05-30
RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables GLSL 1.30 Support   Radeon   2013-05-28
A Very Early Gallium3D TGSI Back-End For LLVM   Mesa   2013-04-22
Modern Intel Gallium3D Driver Proposed For Mainline   Mesa   2013-04-16
LLVM May Get A TGSI Gallium3D Compiler Back-End   LLVM   2013-04-05
Geometry Shaders For Gallium3D LLVM   Mesa   2013-03-26
Indirect Addressing Merged In LLVM R600 Back-End   AMD   2013-02-07
NVIDIA's CUDA/OpenCL PTX Back-End In LLVM 3.2   LLVM   2012-12-16
Gallium3D Driver Comes For Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge   Intel   2012-12-13
Freedreno Gallium3D Driver Begins To Work   Hardware   2012-12-11
New GLSL To LLVM Implementation For Mesa   Mesa   2012-09-12
RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Gets A Big TODO List   Radeon   2012-08-28
Marek Lands Radeon Gallium3D MSAA Changes   Mesa   2012-08-15
AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Runs A Bit More   Radeon   2012-08-03