| 1 | Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / February 9, 2012
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| 2 | =========================================
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Mesa 8.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with
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| 5 | stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait
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| 6 | for Mesa 8.0.1.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 API, but the version reported by
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| 9 | glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used.
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| 10 | Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.0.
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| 11 |
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| 12 | See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for
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| 13 | prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | MD5 checksums
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| 16 | -------------
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| 17 |
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| 18 | ::
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| 19 |
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| 20 | 3516fea6c28ce4a0fa9759e4894729a1 MesaLib-8.0.tar.gz
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| 21 | 1a5668fe72651a670611164cefc703b2 MesaLib-8.0.tar.bz2
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| 22 | 66f5a01a85530a91472a3acceb556db8 MesaLib-8.0.zip
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| 23 |
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| 24 | New features
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| 25 | ------------
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| 26 |
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| 27 | - GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g)
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| 28 | - GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g)
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| 29 | - GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g)
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| 30 | - GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast)
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| 31 | - GL_EXT_packed_float (i965)
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| 32 | - GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965)
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| 33 | - GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965)
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| 34 | - GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic)
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| 35 | - GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g)
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| 36 | - GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers)
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| 37 | - GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe)
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| 38 | - ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g)
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| 39 | - Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Bug fixes
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| 42 | ---------
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| 43 |
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| 44 | Changes
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| 45 | -------
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| 46 |
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| 47 | - Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically,
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| 48 | i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were
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| 49 | removed.
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| 50 | - Removed support for BeOS.
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| 51 | - Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and "ICD"
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| 52 | drivers.
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| 53 | - Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.
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| 54 | - Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by
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| 55 | desktop OpenGL, ``GL_COLOR_INDEX`` data can still be uploaded to a
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| 56 | color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored
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| 57 | internally as color-index.
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| 58 | - Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.
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| 59 | - Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded
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| 60 | by the gallium drivers for this hardware.
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| 61 | - Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were
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| 62 | either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or
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| 63 | deprecated.
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