[Mesa-dev] Mesa compatibility range

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 15:37 +0000, Jonathan Jackson wrote:

> 1.       My question is: Is it reasonable to think that llvmpipe (or other drivers) will grand me a much wider
> array of supported system if I use that implementation over the original Windows one?

I'm reasonably sure that llvmpipe implements a newer version of OpenGL
than the software renderer included with Windows.

> 2.       Another way to ask the question is: Is there a way of knowing which specs a system is required to have
> so it can support Mesa’s implementation of all of OpenGL 2.1? (is it common that a system(high or low end)
> will support all of Mesa’s equivalents of OpenGL 2.1 features).

llvmpipe's OpenGL version does not depend on the CPU's feature level,
it implements OpenGL 3.3 regardless of the instruction set.

- ajax