10

Gallium3D For Haiku Is Being Addressed

view full story
linux-howto

http://www.linux.com – It turns out that a developer is bringing Mesa's Gallium3D driver support to Haiku -- the operating system that seeks to re-implement BeOS as open-source -- per an outstanding monetary bounty... It turns out that a developer is bringing Mesa's Gallium3D driver support to Haiku -- the operating system that seeks to re-implement BeOS as open-source -- per an outstanding monetary bounty... Read more at Phoronix (Hardware)

jiqi2's picture
Submitted by jiqi2 on 01/09/2012 – Made popular on 01/09/2012

Stories similar to Gallium3D For Haiku Is Being Addressed

Replicating the BeOS Desktop 34 weeks 6 days ago

Hi everyone. BeOS is a dead operating system, but its interface remains one of the most efficient and stylish in my opinion. There's a project to create an open source BeOS successor called Haiku, but it's still quite unfinished. So, I want to somehow make Linux replicate the BeOS interface as closely as possible.

One of the Google Summer of Code projects pertaining to Mesa / X.Org is to bring-up open-source OpenCL support with the Gallium3D driver architecture. There's long been a branch of Mesa dubbed "Clover" that provides an OpenCL state tracker for the Gallium3D driver architecture, but it hasn't been usable as...

For those that don't closely follow the Mesa Git repository, there's finally a few more "RadeonSI" Gallium3D driver fixes that arrived this morning for slowly but surely bringing up the AMD Radeon HD 7000 series 3D support.

For those that don't closely follow the Mesa Git repository, there's finally a few more "RadeonSI" Gallium3D driver fixes that arrived this morning for slowly but surely bri

Yesterday we delivered benchmarks showing how the open-source ATI Radeon graphics driver stack in Ubuntu 10.04 is comparing to older releases of the proprietary ATI Catalyst Linux driver. Sadly, the latest open-source ATI driver still is no match even for a two or four-year-old proprietary driver from ATI/AMD, but that is with the classic Mesa DRI driver.

Haiku - remember BeOS ? 22 weeks 4 days ago

BeOS -- It had software called BeWare (no, I didn't make that up). A very bad precedent, however Haiku is very interesting. They've had a booth at SCALE for the last two years, so they're gaining traction.

Phoronix: "Last quarter we compared the Catalyst and Mesa driver performance using an ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card, compared the Gallium3D and classic Mesa drivers for ATI Radeon X1000 series hardware, and ultimately found that even with the ATI R500 class graphics cards the open-source driver is still playing catch-up to AMD's proprietary Catalyst Linux driver."

Thanks to the great work of Marek Olšák, the prolific independent contributor to Mesa/Gallium3D that is still at university, AMD Radeon HD 2000/3000 "R600" hardware now has MSAA (anti-aliasing) support from the open-source Linux graphics driver...

Thanks to the great work of Marek Olšák, the prolific independent contributor to Mesa/Gallium3D that is still at university, AMD Radeon HD 2000/3000

Gallium3D is a free software library for 3D graphics device drivers.