[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i915: Stop claiming GL 2.1 support.

Fri Dec 2 20:22:46 UTC 2016

On 2 December 2016 at 19:49, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> A user reporting an unrelated bug (98964) said that he has to set
> MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=1.4 when running Chromium otherwise it's too
> slow. I presume that it's attempting to use GL 2.0/2.1 features that
> aren't hardware-supported on i915.
Ubuntu has been carrying a slightly different patch for a while [1].
JFYI - I cannot comment which one is the better option.

-Emil

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-xorg/lib/mesa.git/tree/debian/patches/i915-dont-default-to-2.1.patch?h=ubuntu