Mesa 13.0.0 released [LWN.net]

The Mesa project has announced version 13.0.0 of the 3D graphics library that provides an open-source implementation of OpenGL. "This release has huge amount of features, but without a doubt the biggest ones are: Vulkan driver for hardware supported by the AMDGPU kernel driver [and] OpenGL 4.4/4.5 capability, yet the drivers may expose lower version due to pending Khronos CTS validation."

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Mesa 13.0.0 released

Posted Nov 2, 2016 23:30 UTC (Wed) by Lekensteyn (guest, #99903) [Link] (2 responses)

Those who have a hybrid graphics laptop may notice frequeny runtime resumes (when starting new Qt or OpenGL applications for example). This is due to a change where udev is fully replaced by libdrm. To fix this problem, rebuild libdrm with this patch applied.

Mesa 13.0.0 released

Posted Nov 3, 2016 14:06 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link] (1 responses)

Wonder what's in “VAAPI: H264 encode support”. Intel already has had VA-API H.264 encode (Intel Quick Sync Video) for a long time; is this for other hardware? A software implementation? Or just something being moved into Mesa?

Mesa 13.0.0 released

Posted Nov 3, 2016 14:42 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Mesa has a VA-API implementation for AMD chips (and, IIRC, a reverse-engineered implementation for nouveau). This will be support for H.264 encode in that implementation.

Mesa 13.0.0 released

Posted Nov 3, 2016 19:29 UTC (Thu) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link] (1 responses)

So I need a newer libdrm and an older flex (>= 2.6.1)? Seems a bit contradictory. :)

Not that I don't understand. (And, in fact, I have flex 2.6.1.) I just hope it's something they're planning to address.

Mesa 13.0.0 released

Posted Nov 4, 2016 7:49 UTC (Fri) by Felix (subscriber, #36445) [Link]

> So I need a newer libdrm and an older flex (>= 2.6.1)? Seems a bit contradictory. :)
>
> Not that I don't understand. (And, in fact, I have flex 2.6.1.) I just hope it's something
> they're planning to address.

Seems like flex 2.6.2 has some serious issues breaking several applications: https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/113

And yes, mesa developers are aware of that bug (even though it appeared to them only after writing the release announcement).