| Mesa 7.6 Release Notes, 28 September 2009 |
| ========================================= |
| |
| Mesa 7.6 is a new development release. People who are concerned with |
| stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait |
| for Mesa 7.6.1. |
| |
| Mesa 7.6 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by |
| glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. |
| Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. |
| |
| See the :doc:`Compiling/Installing page <../install>` for |
| prerequisites for DRI hardware acceleration. |
| |
| MD5 checksums |
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| :: |
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| 5ffa7d7abf8973f57a1bc4f813e6dade MesaLib-7.6.tar.gz |
| 8c75f90cd0303cfac9e4b6d54f6759ca MesaLib-7.6.tar.bz2 |
| 27fcfd69708599c978cb34ba5cd363e1 MesaLib-7.6.zip |
| e7befb3ae604f591806194a4da445628 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.gz |
| 0ede7adf217951acd90dbe4551210c07 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.bz2 |
| ed9298409cf6613bc0964525ca4afc8a MesaDemos-7.6.zip |
| 666955668e44ff14acf7d15dc78407d3 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.gz |
| b8b59706f827d18d1b784a0ff98b4dc2 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.bz2 |
| c49c19c2bbef4f3b7f1389974dff25f4 MesaGLUT-7.6.zip |
| |
| New features |
| ------------ |
| |
| - OpenVG front-end (state tracker for Gallium). This was written by |
| Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics. |
| - GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object |
| extensions (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and |
| software drivers) |
| - GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI |
| drivers, and software drivers) |
| - GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension (supported in Gallium drivers, |
| Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers) |
| - GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension (supported in software drivers and |
| i965 drivers) |
| - GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra) |
| - GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers) |
| - GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965, |
| and software drivers) |
| - Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager |
| - radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with |
| kernel memory manager |
| - radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query |
| - r300 driver supports OpenGL 1.5 |
| - r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB |
| - i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, |
| GL_EXT_stencil_two_side and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions |
| - Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program / |
| GL_ARB_fragment_program. |
| - Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to |
| specify max framebuffer, viewport size. |
| - Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver. This is a new driver |
| based on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation. |
| This is an "alpha" stage driver. See the |
| src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README file for more information. |
| |
| Bug fixes |
| --------- |
| |
| - i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size |
| constant buffers (GLSL uniforms) |