[Mesa-dev] Mesa 18.0.0 release plan

[Kyriazis, George]

Hello Emil,

For the swr driver we are planning on getting some features in in the last couple of days, but one extra week will help us out.

Specifically, we are thinking of checking in:

- FE 16-wide shader support. This will entail calling lp_build_tgsi_soa() with width 16.  Having some problems with that; still trying to characterize. (I can elaborate in a separate thread, if you’d like).  There is some additional fixes that we need to check-in to support VertexID correctly.

- Early rasterization.  This allows is to early reject triangles that are too small to rasterize to any pixels, which is quite common to our workloads.  This will require some additional testing on our end to increase confidence.

Thank you!

George


> On Jan 16, 2018, at 1:18 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As you've know the Mesa 18.0.0 release plan has been available for a while
> on the mesa3d.org website [1].
> 
> In case you've missed it here it is:
> 
> Jan 19 2018 - Feature freeze/Release candidate 1
> Jan 26 2018 - Release candidate 2
> Feb 02 2018 - Release candidate 3
> Feb 09 2018 - Release candidate 4/final release
> 
> This gives us half a week until the branch point.
> 
> As this is shorter notice than usual, I'm open to adjusting the schedule by a
> week. Do let me know ASAP, if we should go that route.
> 
> As always - do list features/sets that you'd like to see merged. Thus we can
> all have a clear idea and prioritise accordingly.
> 
> Thanks
> Emil
> 
> [1] https://www.mesa3d.org/release-calendar.html
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