Graphics: Gallium's Direct3D 9 State Tracker and NVIDIA Kepler Mainline Driver Support

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Intel's New Driver Is Now Working With Gallium's Direct3D 9 State Tracker
Following the Gallum Nine "TTN" support landing to allow a TGSI-to-NIR code path to be used rather than requiring Gallium3D drivers support the conventional TGSI intermediate representation, Intel's new "Iris" driver now is working with Gallium D3D9 after the final bit of code was merged.
The Iris driver has added the TGSI to NIR integration and with this "the Gallium Nine state tracker now works on Iris."
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NVIDIA Kepler Mainline Driver Support Nears Retirement, Starting With Notebook GPUs
NVIDIA will no longer be officially supporting Kepler mobile/notebook GPUs by their mainline driver. For now at least they will continue supporting Kepler desktop GPUs by their mainline driver.
On Friday was a knowledge-base article by NVIDIA outlining the support plan for Kepler GeForce GPUs for notebooks. Beginning next month (April), Kepler notebook GPUs will no longer be supported by the company's GameReady drivers but they will continue providing critical security updates through April 2020.
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