Graphics: Nouveau, Mesa and VESA
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Nouveau Gets ARB_bindless_texture Support For Maxwell & Newer
Back for Mesa 18.0 there was OpenGL bindless textures for Kepler GPUs on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver while now for Mesa 18.1 that support is in place for Maxwell GPUs and newer.
Bindless texture support is important for "AZDO" purposes for approaching zero driver overhead with OpenGL. ARB_bindless_texture reduces the API/GL driver overhead of resource bindings and allows accessing textures without needing to first bind/re-bind them.
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Marek Working Towards Even Lower SGPR Register Usage
Yesterday well known open-source AMD developer Marek Olšák landed his RadeonSI 32-bit pointers support for freeing up some scalar general purpose registers (SGPRs) and he's continued with a new patch series to alleviate register usage even more.
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Libdrm 2.4.90 Released With Meson Build System, AMDGPU & Intel Improvements
Marek Olšák on Saturday released the big libdrm 2.4.90 DRM library update that sits between Mesa and other GPU user-space components and the kernel's Direct Rendering Manager code.
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Mesa Git Lands RadeonSI 32-bit Pointers Support
At the start of the new year Marek Olšák of AMD posted a set of patches for 32-bit GPU pointers in RadeonSI. That work has now landed in mainline Mesa Git.
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xf86-video-vesa 2.4.0
Nothing terribly exciting, but enough bug fixes to justify a release.
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VESA X.Org Driver Sees First Update In Three Years
Should you find yourself using the xf86-video-vesa DDX for one reason or another, a new release is now available and it's the first in three years.
The xf86-video-vesa 2.4.0 X.Org driver was released this week with the handful of commits that came in since v2.3.4 was tagged three years ago, it's been eight years already since xf86-video-vesa 2.3.0. For most users, xf86-video-vesa is just used in select fallback instances when your main DDX driver fails but even still these days KMS is pretty solid with xf86-video-modesetting, fbdev and other DDX drivers working well, etc.
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