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Mesa Code Activity Really Exploded In 2009
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| Back in mid-2008 we published two articles
| that looked at the contributors to the X
| Server and contributors to Mesa, which
| provided statistics as to the companies and
| developers contributing to these two
| important free software projects over the
| years. Since the start of the new year
| though I've been meaning to provide some
| other statistics about how the projects
| themselves have evolved over the year, but
| this morning I am finally pushing out these
| new numbers for the X.Org Server and Mesa.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkzNw
NVIDIA's VDPAU Library Updated For DRI2 Work
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| NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner has announced the
| release of libvdpau 0.4. From November of
| 2008 when VDPAU was introduced to September
| of 2009, the Video Decode and Presentation
| API for Unix lived within NVIDIA's binary
| display driver package. However, in
| September NVIDIA began releasing a
| standalone driver package to make it easier
| for other Linux graphics drivers to
| implement. A month later NVIDIA then pushed
| out a DRI2 patch that allowed choosing the
| VDPAU back-end implementation on a per-
| screen basis.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkzNQ
ATI R600/700 Command Checker Published
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| Jerome Glisse has sent a new patch to the
| other DRI developers that adds a command
| checker for the ATI R600/700 series
| graphics processors.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkzOA
ATI Radeon KMS Leaves Staging Area In 2.6.33
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| David Airlie has called upon Linus to pull
| in a new set of DRM patches for the Linux
| 2.6.33 kernel, which should land with the
| Linux 2.6.33-rc7 release.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzk0Mg
Open-Source ATI Evergreen Support Arrives
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| Months after the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series
| (known by the "Evergreen" family codename)
| was introduced, AMD has finally pushed out
| the first bits of open-source code. This
| morning if you are to checkout the xf86-
| video-ati DDX driver branch there is
| initial user-space mode-setting support for
| the Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs. The ATI
| kernel mode-setting support that we really
| care about these days is also about done,
| but it isn't yet published. The open-source
| ATI driver currently offers no 2D (EXA)
| acceleration and the 3D support either
| through a classic Mesa driver or Gallium3D
| also is not yet available.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzk0Ng
Hybrid Graphics Comes To Linux In Crude Form
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| While the support for graphics processors
| on Linux in the free software stack has
| improved a lot over Linux, there still are
| entire areas of support missing, such as
| with supporting NVIDIA's SLI or AMD's
| CrossFire technologies. Additionally,
| NVIDIA and AMD as well as Intel have been
| plopping dual GPUs into notebooks. This is
| not to split the rendering workload, but
| rather to allow one lower-powered GPU to be
| utilized when not in engaging in any
| vigorous tasks and then another
| performance-oriented GPU to be utilized
| when such speed is needed. This solution
| basically provides the best of both words
| of having maximum battery life but fast
| performance when needed. However, Linux has
| not supported this hybrid / switchable
| graphics technology at all.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzk0Mw
Recent:
R600/700 Mesa Driver Picks Up Blit Support
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| While a blitter module was introduced for
| Gallium3D that uses the 3D engine for
| blitting, this doesn't help those without blit
| support that are still running the "classic"
| Mesa driver stack. Over the night, however,
| blit support has arrived for the ATI R600/700
| Mesa driver. This support arrived in the form
| of three commits (1, 2, 3) that increase the
| driver's code-base by around 2,000 lines of
| code.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzg4NQ
Wicd 1.7 Released With New Features
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| For those that prefer wicd to NetworkManager
| or other programs for managing network
| connections under Linux, a new release of the
| Wireless Interface Connection Daemon is now
| available. Wicd 1.7.0 is arriving just about
| six months after the release of wicd 1.6.0,
| but this 2010 release does bring some new
| features.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzg4Nw
Mesa 7.8 In March; Mesa 8.0 To Have OpenGL 3
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| This week in the Mesa world Gallium3D feature
| levels came about and a new EGL state tracker
| was released. The week though is not over and
| there are more announcements coming out for
| this free software OpenGL stack used on Linux
| and other operating systems.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzg3OQ
The State Of OpenGL 3.x in Mesa Core
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| While ATI R600 users only recently received
| OpenGL 2.0 hardware support within the open-
| source Radeon 3D stack and there is many more
| OpenGL extensions to be implemented just not
| for the ATI Mesa driver but the other DRI
| drivers as well, Brian Paul has published a
| document that lays out the current state of
| OpenGL 3.x within the classic Mesa core. This
| document lays out what core Mesa supports and
| not necessarily that any of the drivers are
| implementing the said support at this time.
| Granted, with Mesa not really being very
| performance-efficient at this time or capable
| of running most games, a majority of users
| will be waiting for the OpenGL 3.x state
| tracker for Gallium3D.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzg1MQ
Mesa 7.6 Gets Pulled Into Ubuntu 9.10
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| Mesa 7.6 does not drastically change the level of
| performance compared to the older Mesa snapshot
| that was found in Ubuntu Karmic up until today,
| but there are improvements in a few areas. In the
| below example from an Intel G43 system we
| compared the Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10 Beta, and
| Ubuntu 9.10 Beta with Mesa 7.6 performance using
| the Phoronix Test Suite. With the Urban Terror
| game there were performance improvements already
| to be found in Ubuntu 9.10 compared to Ubuntu
| 9.04 with Mesa 7.4, but this latest code steps up
| the performance one bit more.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_karmic_mesa&num=1
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