1<HTML> 2 3<TITLE>Mesa Release Notes</TITLE> 4 5<head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"></head> 6 7<BODY> 8 9<body bgcolor="#eeeeee"> 10 11<H1>Mesa 7.1 Release Notes / August 26, 2008</H1> 12 13<p> 14Mesa 7.1 is a new development release. 15There have been many internal code changes since Mesa 7.0.x. 16It should be relatively stable, but those who are especially concerned about 17stability should wait for Mesa 7.2 or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable 18release). 19</p> 20</> 21Note that this version of Mesa does not use the GEM memory manager. 22The master branch of git uses GEM. 23</p> 24<p> 25DRM version 2.3.1 should be used with Mesa 7.1 26</p> 27 28 29<h2>MD5 checksums</h2> 30<pre> 31971c2fe6e6949dc5ba200a6f97a6dc81 MesaLib-7.1.tar.gz 326bff7f532d16f90f944a400c8bd7074d MesaLib-7.1.tar.bz2 33d48224bf9d54c3da6776adb4869ba024 MesaLib-7.1.zip 343de268420efca43e9a19ab506cdfc993 MesaDemos-7.1.tar.gz 35abfc9775e1462363af8ec160d1feb01f MesaDemos-7.1.tar.bz2 36f7b3623387c4036e9895cd9ac0dfad99 MesaDemos-7.1.zip 37fdf348f78cd09304b6ff801ef8acc8eb MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.gz 38f6d88a4eeb02e98c7e92f1c895d3c76b MesaGLUT-7.1.tar.bz2 394dc102a5ca51e1c41dde87d3f8c7b22a MesaGLUT-7.1.zip 40</pre> 41 42 43<h2>New features</h2> 44<ul> 45<li>autoconf-based configuration (and clean-up of Makefiles) 46<li>Assorted DRI driver enhancements 47<li>Reduced dependencies between X server and Mesa 48<li>GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver 49<li>Support for the GL shading language with i965 driver (implemented by Intel) 50<li>ATI R500 series support (Radeon X1300–X1950) in r300 DRI driver 51</ul> 52 53 54<h2>Bug fixes</h2> 55<ul> 56<li>Numerous GLSL fixes 57<li>Fixed some error code/detection bugs in the GLSL-related API functions 58<li>Lots of DRI driver fixes. 59</ul> 60 61 62<h2>To Do (someday) items</h2> 63<ul> 64<li>Remove the MEMCPY() and _mesa_memcpy() wrappers and just use memcpy(). 65Probably do the same for malloc, calloc, etc. 66The wrappers were useful in the past for memory debugging but now we 67have valgrind. Not worried about SunOS 4 support anymore either... 68<li>Switch to freeglut 69<li>Fix linux-glide target/driver. 70<li>Improved lambda and derivative calculation for frag progs. 71</ul> 72 73 74<h2>Driver Status</h2> 75 76<pre> 77Driver Status 78---------------------- ---------------------- 79DRI drivers varies with the driver 80XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 2.1 81OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 2.1 82Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 2.1 83Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) implements OpenGL 1.3 84SVGA unsupported 85Wind River UGL unsupported 86DJGPP unsupported 87GGI unsupported 88BeOS unsupported 89Allegro unsupported 90D3D unsupported 91</pre> 92 93</body> 94</html> 95