1Mesa 7.1 Release Notes / August 26, 2008
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3
4Mesa 7.1 is a new development release. There have been many internal
5code changes since Mesa 7.0.x. It should be relatively stable, but those
6who are especially concerned about stability should wait for Mesa 7.2 or
7use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable release).
8
9Note that this version of Mesa does not use the GEM memory manager. The
10master branch of git uses GEM.
11
12DRM version 2.3.1 should be used with Mesa 7.1
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14MD5 checksums
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17::
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19   971c2fe6e6949dc5ba200a6f97a6dc81  MesaLib-7.1.tar.gz
20   6bff7f532d16f90f944a400c8bd7074d  MesaLib-7.1.tar.bz2
21   d48224bf9d54c3da6776adb4869ba024  MesaLib-7.1.zip
22   3de268420efca43e9a19ab506cdfc993  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.gz
23   abfc9775e1462363af8ec160d1feb01f  MesaDemos-7.1.tar.bz2
24   f7b3623387c4036e9895cd9ac0dfad99  MesaDemos-7.1.zip
25   fdf348f78cd09304b6ff801ef8acc8eb  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.gz
26   f6d88a4eeb02e98c7e92f1c895d3c76b  MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.bz2
27   4dc102a5ca51e1c41dde87d3f8c7b22a  MesaGLUT-7.1.zip
28
29New features
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31
32-  autoconf-based configuration (and clean-up of Makefiles)
33-  Assorted DRI driver enhancements
34-  Reduced dependencies between X server and Mesa
35-  GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver
36-  Support for the GL shading language with i965 driver (implemented by
37   Intel)
38-  ATI R500 series support (Radeon X1300–X1950) in r300 DRI driver
39
40Bug fixes
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42
43-  Numerous GLSL fixes
44-  Fixed some error code/detection bugs in the GLSL-related API
45   functions
46-  Lots of DRI driver fixes.
47
48To Do (someday) items
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50
51-  Remove the MEMCPY() and \_mesa_memcpy() wrappers and just use
52   memcpy(). Probably do the same for malloc, calloc, etc. The wrappers
53   were useful in the past for memory debugging but now we have
54   valgrind. Not worried about SunOS 4 support anymore either...
55-  Switch to freeglut
56-  Fix linux-glide target/driver.
57-  Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs.
58
59Driver Status
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64   Driver         Status
65   ----------------------  ----------------------
66   DRI drivers     varies with the driver
67   XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 2.1
68   OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 2.1
69   Windows/Win32       implements OpenGL 2.1
70   Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2)  implements OpenGL 1.3
71   SVGA            unsupported
72   Wind River UGL      unsupported
73   DJGPP           unsupported
74   GGI         unsupported
75   BeOS            unsupported
76   Allegro         unsupported
77   D3D         unsupported
78