[Mesa-users] Anisotropic filtering Support on MESA ?

Brian Paul brianp at vmware.com
Wed Jun 5 08:58:18 PDT 2013


On 06/04/2013 02:23 PM, Wonwoo Lee wrote:
> Hello, MESA users.
>
> I have a couple of beginner's question about MESA.
> Let's assume I'm trying to use MESA on a Linux server machine without hardware GPUs, e.g. blade servers to run OpenGL applications.
>
> - Can I run an OpenGL application with MESA by using purely software rendering ?

Yes, with the old swrast driver or with the gallium softpipe (slow) and 
llvmpipe (fast) drivers.

> - Is OpenGL 3.0 or later supported in MESA, when I use pure software rendering ?

Not yet.

> - Is Anisotropic filtering available in MESA ?

Yes, in some drivers.  I think most hardware drivers support it, and in 
the swrast and softpipe drivers.

-Brian



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