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  • Mesa 19.3 Has The Very Preliminary OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Support Ready For Intel Gen12

    Similar to the flurry of Radeon driver activity in buttoning things up ahead of the Mesa 19.3 feature freeze, the Intel open-source crew has landed some last-minute bits around the Tiger Lake "Gen 12" enablement.

    In recent months there has been a lot of Intel Tiger Lake / Gen12 Linux enablement activity. On the kernel side Linux 5.4 has the initial bits to be evolved over the coming cycles. Meanwhile over in user-space the initial "Iris" OpenGL and "ANV" Vulkan driver support is in place for Mesa 19.3.

  • Mesa 19.3-RC1 Released With OpenGL 4.6 For Intel, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements

    Mesa 19.3 feature development is now officially over and Mesa 20.0 is open for development on Git master. This final Mesa series of 2019 comes with many exciting OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.

    One of the key improvements with Mesa 19.3 is that Intel's OpenGL i965/Iris drivers now supports OpenGL 4.6! Thanks to the SPIR-V ingestion support finally landing, the Intel open-source Linux graphics driver finally has OpenGL 4.6 capabilities in full. AMD has also been working towards RadeonSI OpenGL 4.6 support but with that also transitioning them to NIR it's been a long-time coming and hasn't materialized for Mesa's final 2019 release.

  • mesa 19.3.0-rc1
    Hi List,
    
    I'd like to announce the availability of 19.3.0-rc1 and the beginning of the
    19.3.0 release cycle. Despite the short release cycle we've got plenty of good
    things in store for you. Among them the OpenGL 4.6, initial Intel gen12 support,
    lots of new Vulkan extensions, and meson support for windows.
    
    Expect a new RC each Wednesday for the next few weeks until the release tracker
    is cleared. You can see the tracker here:
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/milestones/5. Please be sure to add
    any issues to that tracker that block the release.
    
    Dylan
    
    
    New Features
    ============
    
    GL_ARB_gl_spirv on i965, iris.
    GL_ARB_spirv_extensions on i965, iris.
    GL_EXT_demote_to_helper_invocation on iris, i965.
    OpenGL 4.6 on i965, iris.
    EGL_EXT_image_flush_external
    VK_ANDROID_external_memory_android_hardware_buffer on RADV.
    VK_KHR_shader_clock on Intel, RADV.
    VK_KHR_shader_float_controls on Intel, RADV.
    VK_KHR_spirv_1_4 on Intel, RADV.
    VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore on RADV.
    VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model on Intel.
    VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_ballot on Intel.
    VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_vote on Intel.
    VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment on RADV.
    VK_INTEL_performance_query on Intel.
    Meson support for windows using MSVC and MinGW
    scons has been deprecated for non windows
    Initial Intel gen12 (Tigerlake) support on anvil and iris
    
    
    git tag: mesa-19.3.0-rc1
    
  • Radeon Open-Source Linux Graphics Have A Wild Day For Mesa 19.3 From 8K Decode To ACO

    With Mesa 19.3 scheduled to be branched today and that marking the end of feature development for this next quarterly installment to these open-source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers, developers are in a mad rush landing last minute improvements. The open-source Radeon driver support has a lot to stand in particular from today's work.

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