SteamOS updated, Valve drops AMDGPU-PRO for Mesa
Valve haven't been sitting on their hands, as they have pushed out a fresh update for SteamOS that's currently in Beta. It's been a while and it's a good one.
Category: Mesa
RadeonSI has a large patch set in Mesa-dev for ARB_bindless_texture, allows Dawn of War III to work on Mesa
Mesa developer Samuel Pitoiset sent in a set of 65 patches to the Mesa-dev list to enable ARB_bindless_texture for RadeonSI (AMD), this will allow Dawn of War III to work on Mesa.
The Mesa fixes needed for Dying Light and Dead Island Definitive Edition are now in Mesa-git
Dying Light and Dead Island Definitive Edition were previously broken on Mesa, but as of today a patch has landed in Mesa-git to fix them both ready for Mesa 17.2.
Dying Light & Dead Island Definitive Edition might soon work on Mesa
There's some activity on the Mesa-dev mailing list with patches that will enable both Dying Light & Dead Island Definitive Edition (and it seems Dead Island Riptide Definite Edition too) to work on Mesa.
Mesa 17.0.6 released with AMD Polaris 12 support in the 'radv' Vulkan driver
Mesa 17.0.6 is the latest bug-fix release for the 17.0 series, but it also comes with AMD Polaris 12 support for the 'radv' Vulkan driver that has been back-ported.
Marek submits patch series for threaded Gallium to Mesa, boosts performance in games
AMD employee and Mesa developer Marek Olšák is at it again, proposing a series of patches that would boost performance for AMD GPUs running the open drivers.
Mesa 17.1 has now been released
The latest release of the open-source graphics drivers has now been made available following the final release candidate. There's plenty of new things to love in this release.
Mesa 17.1 RC4 released, final version expected in approximately 24 hours
Emil Velikov has announced the availability of Mesa 17.1 RC4 for some final testing, with the final release of Mesa 17.1 due in approximately 24 hours.
AMD Vulkan driver 'radv' is now 'effectively a pass' for conformance
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD hardware 'radv' now gets 'effectively a pass' for conformance. An awesome milestone for AMD fans.
Mesa 17.1 RC3 is available, closing in on release this month
Mesa 17.1, the next big release for open source graphics drivers on Linux is closing in on release. The third release candidate is now available for testing.
Mesa 17.0.5 is available now with plenty of fixes
Mesa, the open source graphics drivers have been updated in the last few days to 17.0.5 and it contains a bunch of fixes.
Mesa 17.1 will use a set 1GB size for the shader cache
The Mesa developers have been plugging away to get Mesa 17.1 into shape for release, one feature in particular has seen a lot of attention: the shader cache. It will no longer use a percentage of available disk space.
Ubuntu now has a more official PPA to get Mesa updates
Timo Aaltonen noted on his blog that the 'Ubuntu-X' team now have an 'Updates' PPA for you to get the latest Mesa on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10.
Interview with Feral Interactive about their ports and Mesa drivers, Steam keys offered for Mesa developers
It has been a while since we officially spoke to Feral Interactive about their Linux ports, with the last time being in June 2014. It’s time to get reacquainted and see where things stand right now.
OpenGL threaded GL dispatch is now in Mesa-git, should improve a few games performance
The code for OpenGL threaded GL dispatch is now finally in Mesa-git, after multiple developers attempts to fix it up. This should improve performance in multiple games for users of the open source Mesa drivers.
A developer from Feral Interactive has sent in yet another Mesa patch for the 'radv' Vulkan driver
It seems Feral Interactive are busy bees behind the scenes towards something, as one of their developers has sent in another patch for the Mesa 'radv' Vulkan driver.
Mesa 17.1 release is now scheduled for May
The latest and greatest Mesa release 17.1 is due for release on May 5th, so not long for everything to get polished up.
DiRT Rally should soon render correctly with later LLVM versions on RadeonSI Mesa (AMD)
DiRT Rally seemed to have an issue with rendering properly in certain cases with newer versions of LLVM with RadeonSI Mesa (AMD), but it seems to have been tracked down as an issue in LLVM.
The threaded GL dispatch code for Mesa has been taken over by Timothy Arceri to continue the work
The work on the threaded GL dispatch code for Mesa has been picked up by Timothy Arceri as Marek is now busy with other work.
An explanation of what Mesa is and what graphics cards use it
Since we get a few comments here and there asking what Mesa is and what graphics cards will use it, here’s my attempt at clearing it up for you.
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