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

Sat Dec 3 01:04:22 UTC 2016

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Yeah, reverting the patch directly is probably better. Thanks for the heads up.