Haswell should now see OpenGL 4.2 thanks to recent work in Mesa

By Liam Dawe - 12 January 2017 at 12:52 pm UTC | Views: 7,250

Mesa is continuing to progress rapidly, as of today Haswell should now support OpenGL 4.2 ready for the next release of Mesa. Only a few days ago Haswell gained OpenGL4, so this progress is amazing.

Mesa 17 should arrive soon, which means this will be in the next stable release. Mesa switched their versioning, so Mesa 13.1 is now Mesa 17 as they are using a year-based version model.

Hopefully this means Linux gamers stuck with Intel graphics should get a better experience on newer versions of Mesa.

See this commit for the magic. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Drivers, Mesa, Open Source

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GustyGhost Jan 12, 2017

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Now stable distro's mesa packages will look even more out of date.

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