Feature changed by: Thomas Langkamp (tomtomme) Feature #317173, revision 2 Title: Mesa 10.X and LLVM 3.4 for Tumbleweed Requested by: Thomas Langkamp (tomtomme) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Today Fedora decided to rebase Fedora 20 to Mesa 10.1: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1268 It would be great to see - Mesa 10.X in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. There are already home-repositorys - available but official support is always more desirable / stable. --- - What are Mesa and LLVM? Mesa provides the 3D-accelerated part of OSS - graphics drivers. LLVM is in addition needed for newer AMD Radeon - Hardware (most cards released > 2011) using the radeonSI driver to - provide better performance and higher versions of OpenGL. + Mesa 10.X at least in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. There are already home- + repositorys available but official support is always more desirable / + stable. --- What are Mesa and LLVM? + Mesa provides the 3D-accelerated part of OSS graphics drivers. LLVM is + in addition needed for newer AMD Radeon Hardware (most cards released > + 2011) using the radeonSI driver to provide better performance and + higher versions of OpenGL. Use Case: A better 3D-acceleration / OpenGL is important for fluent Desktop Compositing, CAD, 3D-Modelling (Blender) and of course gaming on linux which is growing fast since the release of Valves Steam for Linux. Also OpenCL for scientific stuff would be improved AFAIK. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Tumbleweed is not working well with closed source graphics drivers due to frequent kernel updates. It is officially suggested to use the OSS graphics drivers. The current situation is Mesa 9.2 which is slow compared to 10.X and with OpenGL 3.1 at max. For radeonSI hardware OpenGL 2.1 at max because of LLVM 3.3. Since OpenSUSE 13.2 is delayed Tumbleweed could fill the gap. That is what Tumbleweed was designed for. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/317173

Feature changed by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) Feature #317173, revision 5 Title: Mesa 10.X and LLVM 3.4 for Tumbleweed Requested by: Thomas Langkamp (tomtomme) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Today Fedora decided to rebase Fedora 20 to Mesa 10.1: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1268 It would be great to see Mesa 10.X at least in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. There are already home- repositorys available but official support is always more desirable / stable. Best / most stable would be probably Mesa 10.0.4 --- What are Mesa and LLVM? Mesa provides the 3D-accelerated part of OSS graphics drivers. LLVM is in addition needed for newer AMD Radeon Hardware (most cards released > 2011) using the radeonSI driver to provide better performance and higher versions of OpenGL. Use Case: A better 3D-acceleration / OpenGL is important for fluent Desktop Compositing, CAD, 3D-Modelling (Blender) and of course gaming on linux which is growing fast since the release of Valves Steam for Linux. Also OpenCL for scientific stuff would be improved AFAIK. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Tumbleweed is not working well with closed source graphics drivers due to frequent kernel updates. It is officially suggested to use the OSS graphics drivers. The current situation is Mesa 9.2 which is slow compared to 10.X and with OpenGL 3.1 at max. For radeonSI hardware OpenGL 2.1 at max because of LLVM 3.3. Since OpenSUSE 13.2 is delayed Tumbleweed could fill the gap. That is what Tumbleweed was designed for. + Discussion: + #1: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) (2014-04-05 19:54:47) + This would also require updated libdrm, proto, driver, etc. and is done + in X11:XOrg ... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/317173