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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I've just seen that classic OSMesa has been removed (again) from Mesa3D a few weeks ago with this commit "mesa: Retire classic OSMesa".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We are still actively using classical OSMesa for high quality rendering of still images in a headless environment with no GPU support (server-based rendering on windows and linux)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Unfortunately, none of the alternative software renderers provide all the features that we require, which is antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. The current state is (correct me if I'm wrong)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* softpipe: anisotropic filtering is supported, no antialiasing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* llvmpipe: no anisotropic filtering, has MSAA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* openswr: no anisotropic filtering, has MSAA, no OSMesa interface (?)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We had hoped that classical OSMesa is only removed when there is a full replacement after the discussions in 2016 when OSMesa was about to be removed for the first time<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-March/109665.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-users/2016-March/001132.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and the commit that reverted the removal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=9601815b4be886f4d92bf74916de98f3bdb7275c<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Are there any plans to enhance the renderers so that at least one of them is providing both anisotropic filtering and antialiasing?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>As far as I know, anisotropic texture filtering is also one of the OpenGL 4.6 requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In 2016 I was told that there are only very few developers involved in llvmpipe and that chances are not high that someone is going to port the softpipe anisotropic filtering implementation as llvmpipe is much more complex. Is there any change in that situation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>If there are no such plans, is there any chance of reverting this commit again so that classical OSMesa is available for windows and linux in mesa >20?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andreas Fänger<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>