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Graphics: AMDVLK, Mesa, NVIDIA, Sway and More

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of January 2019 07:20:16 AM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
  • AMDVLK 2019.Q1.4 Driver Brings Vega 20 & Raven 2 Support, More Transform Feedback Work

    This week's AMDVLK open-source Radeon Vulkan driver code drop brings support for the Vega 20 (Vega 7nm) graphics cards and Raven 2 APUs.

    AMD did their weekly code drop on Tuesday and tagged this new release as version 2019.Q1.4. The main highlight of this latest code is official support for Vega 20 as well as the yet-to-be-released Raven 2 hardware. This Vega 20 support comes with some basic per-app tuning as well, including disabling DCC for DOOM except for 32 bpp surfaces, always allowing DCC for Wolfenstein II, and disabling DCC for Dota 2.

  • mesa 19.0.0-rc1

    Hello list,

    This email announces the mesa 19.0 release candidate 1. I'll keep this email fairly brief since I'm already running a little late on getting this done Smile I've just had to resolve quite a few autotools issues to get the dist built.

    Notable in the 19.0-rc1 branch is SWR is set to require LLVM 7 instead of LLVM 6. It is impossible to bootstrap SWR with LLVM 6 and compile with LLVM 7 due to LLVM API changes. Since RadeonSI and Radv both require LLVM 7 I've taken the liberty of bumping SWR so that we could get a tarball built.

    We've had an exciting release cycle, plenty of GL and Vulkan extensions, ~1600 commits since the 18.3 branchpoint with substantial work across all areas of mesa.

    Expect rc2 about this time next week, see you then.

    Dylan

  • Mesa 19.0-RC1 Released With FreeSync Bits, Soft FP64, Many Vulkan Improvements

    After its feature freeze and code branching yesterday, the first release candidate of Mesa 19.0 is now available.

    The Mesa 19.0 release process is underway and there will be weekly release candidates until the stable release is ready to ship. Going by their expected release calendar and past release cycles, Mesa 19.0 should ship around the end of February unless struck by any blocker bug delays.

  • Panfrost Mali Driver In Primitive Form Under Review For Mesa

    The open-source, reverse-engineered Panfrost Gallium3D driver is now under review in an early form for potentially merging into mainline Mesa in the near future. Panfrost is the current open-source driver community effort around Arm's Midgard and Bifrost graphics units.

    There is just under ten thousand lines of Panfrost code up now for review to see integration in Mesa potentially for next quarter's Mesa 19.1 release. This initial patch series contains the initial driver side but for command stream support is only a stub and basic Winsys integration. The full Panfrost driver will not yet work on the mainline Linux kernel until some kernel changes are in place. This initial patch series does include the complete Midgard toolchain support.

  • NVIDIA 418.30 Linux Driver Adds Video Codec SDK 9.0, Optical Flow Support

    While the initial "G-SYNC Compatible" (FreeSync) support is the big headlining feature of today's NVIDIA 418.30 Linux beta driver drop, there are also other changes to get excited about too.

  • The Latest NVIDIA EGLStreams Wayland Backend Code Under Review For KDE/KWin

    Back in November is when NVIDIA announced they were developing an EGLStreams-based back-end for KDE's KWin so the KDE Wayland session could run with their proprietary graphics driver similar to GNOME's EGLStreams support.

  • Sway Adds Relative Pointer Support To Its 1.0 Feature List

    Just in time for the Sway 1.0 release, support for the Wayland pointer constraints and relative pointer protocols has been merged, which is important for handling various games primarily first person shooters.

    Sway 1.0 has already been working on a pretty grand feature list including support for a number of newer Wayland extensions, multi-seat improvements, multi-GPU support, improved window handling, video capture support, tablet support, and a lot of other new features.

  • Intel's Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL 4.6 With Final SPIR-V Additions Under Review

    As some other exciting Linux graphics news today alongside NVIDIA rolling out G-SYNC Compatible support for Linux, the Intel Mesa OpenGL driver could soon finally achieve OpenGL 4.6 compliance with the mainline code.

    OpenGL 4.6 is well over one year old but none of the current Mesa drivers have supported this latest revision due to being held up by the ARB_gl_spirv and ARB_spirv_extensions that are big additions in allowing for SPIR-V ingestion as part of some Vulkan interoperability. This has been a big undertaking for both Intel as well as the RadeonSI driver stack, but at least for the Intel team, they have the finish line in sight.

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