Graphics: RadeonSI NIR Backend, RADV Vulkan Driver, Direct Rendering Manager
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RadeonSI NIR Backend Now Supports GLSL 4.50
The experimental RadeonSI NIR back-end is taking a final step forward for Mesa 18.0.
Up until today when using the RadeonSI NIR code-path the GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) version was limited to 1.50 due to not having any tessellation shader support, but now it's supported up through 4.50 -- the GLSL version matching OpenGL 4.5.
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RADV Vulkan Driver Now Supports VK_EXT_debug_report
With the flurry of Mesa development activity with Mesa 18.0 being branched in a few days, the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver picked up support for another extension.
Building off groundwork laid by Intel ANV, the RADV driver now implements VK_EXT_debug_report. At the moment it doesn't output any messages but can be easily added during development for usage with RenderDoc and other Vulkan debuggers.
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The DRM Graphics Driver Changes Coming For Linux 4.16
With being past the cutoff of new features to be merged to DRM-Next for targeting the upcoming Linux 4.16 kernel merge window, here is a recap of the prominent changes to the Direct Rendering Manager drivers for this next kernel cycle.
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