1 <HTML> 2 3 <TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE> 4 5 <head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> 6 7 <BODY> 8 9 <body bgcolor="#eeeeee"> 10 11 <H1>Mesa 7.6 Release Notes, 28 September 2009</H1> 12 13 <p> 14 Mesa 7.6 is a new development release. 15 People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick 16 with a previous release or wait for Mesa 7.6.1. 17 </p> 18 <p> 19 Mesa 7.6 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by 20 glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. 21 Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1. 22 </p> 23 <p> 24 See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites 25 for DRI hardware acceleration. 26 </p> 27 28 29 <h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 30 <pre> 31 5ffa7d7abf8973f57a1bc4f813e6dade MesaLib-7.6.tar.gz 32 8c75f90cd0303cfac9e4b6d54f6759ca MesaLib-7.6.tar.bz2 33 27fcfd69708599c978cb34ba5cd363e1 MesaLib-7.6.zip 34 e7befb3ae604f591806194a4da445628 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.gz 35 0ede7adf217951acd90dbe4551210c07 MesaDemos-7.6.tar.bz2 36 ed9298409cf6613bc0964525ca4afc8a MesaDemos-7.6.zip 37 666955668e44ff14acf7d15dc78407d3 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.gz 38 b8b59706f827d18d1b784a0ff98b4dc2 MesaGLUT-7.6.tar.bz2 39 c49c19c2bbef4f3b7f1389974dff25f4 MesaGLUT-7.6.zip 40 </pre> 41 42 43 <h2>New features</h2> 44 <ul> 45 <li><a href="openvg.html">OpenVG</a> front-end (state tracker for Gallium). 46 This was written by Zack Rusin at Tungsten Graphics. 47 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_object and GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object extensions 48 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 49 <li>GL_ARB_copy_buffer extension 50 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 51 <li>GL_ARB_map_buffer_range extension 52 (supported in Gallium drivers, Intel DRI drivers, and software drivers)</li> 53 <li>GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map extension 54 (supported in software drivers and i965 drivers)</li> 55 <li>GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra (ARB synonym for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra)</li> 56 <li>GL_ARB_sync (supported in software drivers and Intel DRI drivers)</li> 57 <li>GL_EXT_provoking_vertex extension (supported in Gallium, i915, i965, and software drivers) 58 <li>Rewritten radeon/r200/r300 driver using a buffer manager 59 <li>radeon/r200/r300 GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support when used with 60 kernel memory manager 61 <li>radeon/r200/r300 support for GL_ARB_occlusion_query</li> 62 <li>r300 driver supports OpenGL 1.5</li> 63 <li>r300 driver support for GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB 64 <li>i915/945 driver support for GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side 65 and GL_ATI_separate_stencil extensions 66 <li>Rewritten assembler for GL_ARB_vertex_program / 67 GL_ARB_fragment_program.</li> 68 <li>Added configure --with-max-width=W, --with-max-height=H options to specify 69 max framebuffer, viewport size. 70 <li>Initial version of Gallium llvmpipe driver. This is a new driver based 71 on LLVM which makes exensive use of run-time code generation. This is 72 an "alpha" stage driver. See the src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/README 73 file for more information. 74 </ul> 75 76 77 <h2>Bug fixes</h2> 78 <ul> 79 <li>i965 DRI driver fixes, including support for "unlimited" size constant 80 buffers (GLSL uniforms) 81 </ul> 82 83 </body> 84 </html> 85
