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| author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2012-01-11 08:18:52 +0100 |
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| committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2012-01-11 08:18:52 +0100 |
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diff --git a/mesalib/docs/relnotes-8.0.html b/mesalib/docs/relnotes-8.0.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4aa175366 --- /dev/null +++ b/mesalib/docs/relnotes-8.0.html @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +<HTML> + +<head> +<TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE> +<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"> +<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> +</head> + +<BODY> + +<body bgcolor="#eeeeee"> + +<H1>Mesa 8.0 Release Notes / (release date TBD)</H1> + +<p> +Mesa 8.0 is a new development release. +People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick +with a previous release or wait for Mesa 8.0.1. +</p> +<p> +Mesa 8.0 implements the OpenGL 3.0 API, but the version reported by +glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. +Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 3.0. +</p> +<p> +See the <a href="install.html">Compiling/Installing page</a> for prerequisites +for DRI hardware acceleration. +</p> + + +<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> +<pre> +tbd +</pre> + + +<h2>New features</h2> +<ul> +<li>GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility (r300g, r600g) +<li>GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float (r600g) +<li>GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev (r600g) +<li>GL_ARB_texture_storage (gallium drivers and swrast) +<li>GL_EXT_packed_float (i965) +<li>GL_EXT_texture_array (r600g, i965) +<li>GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent (i965) +<li>GL_NV_fog_distance (all gallium drivers, nouveau classic) +<li>GL_NV_primitive_restart (r600g) +<li>GL_OES_EGL_image_external (gallium drivers) +<li>GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture (softpipe, llvmpipe) +<li>ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui (softpipe, r600g) +<li>Many updates to the VMware svga Gallium driver +</ul> + + +<h2>Bug fixes</h2> +<ul> +</ul> + + +<h2>Changes</h2> +<ul> +<li>Removed all DRI drivers that did not support DRI2. Specifically, + i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and unichrome were + removed.</li> +<li>Removed support for BeOS.</li> +<li>Removed the obsolete (and unmaintained) Windows "gldirect" and + "ICD" drivers.</li> +<li>Removed the linux-fbdev software driver.</li> +<li>Removed all remnants of paletted texture support. As required by + desktop OpenGL, <tt>GL_COLOR_INDEX</tt> data can still be uploaded + to a color (e.g., RGBA) texture. However, the data cannot be stored + internally as color-index.</li> +<li>Removed support for GL_APPLE_client_storage extension.</li> +<li>Removed the classic Mesa r300 and r600 drivers, which are superseded + by the gallium drivers for this hardware.</li> +<li>Removed the dead Gallium i965, cell and failover drivers, which were + either broken and with nobody in sight to fix the situation or + deprecated.</li> +</ul> + + +</body> +</html> |