[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] docs: update intro.html to mention new APIs, etc

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 14:30:07 UTC 2017


Thanks Brian,

A couple of small additions below, if you've not pushed the series.

On 8 February 2017 at 19:31, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:

> +<a href="http://www.khronos.org/opengles/">OpenGL ES</a> (versions 1, 2, 3),
> +<a href="http://www.khronos.org/opencl/">OpenCL</a>,
<a href="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/">OpenMAX</a>,

> +<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU">VDPAU</a> and
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API">VA API</a> and
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Video_Motion_Compensation">XvMC</a> and

> +<a href="http://www.khronos.org/vulkan/">Vulkan</a>.
>  </p>
>
>  <p>
> -Mesa ties into several other open-source projects: the
> -<a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/">Direct Rendering
> -Infrastructure</a> and <a href="http://x.org">X.org</a> to
> -provide OpenGL support to users of X on Linux, FreeBSD and other operating
> +A variety of device drivers allows the Mesa libraries to be used in many
> +different environments ranging from software emulation to complete hardware
> +acceleration for modern GPUs.
> +</p>
> +
> +<p>
> +Mesa ties into several other open-source projects: the
> +<a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/">Direct Rendering
> +Infrastructure</a> and <a href="http://x.org">X.org</a> to
> +provide OpenGL support on Linux, FreeBSD and other operating
>  systems.
>  </p>
>
> @@ -153,13 +162,21 @@ and version 1.30 of the OpenGL Shading Language.
>  </p>
>
>  <p>
> +July 2016: Mesa 12.0 is released, including OpenGL 4.3 support and initial
> +support for Vulkan for Intel GPUs.  Plus, there's another gallium software
> +driver ("swr") based on LLVM and developed by Intel.
> +</p>
> +
> +<p>
>  Ongoing: Mesa is the OpenGL implementation for several types of hardware
>  made by Intel, AMD and NVIDIA, plus the VMware virtual GPU.
Ongoing: Mesa is the OpenGL implementation for devices designed by Intel,
AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Vivante, plus the VMware and VirGL
virtual GPUs.

-Emil


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