Mesa 10.6.8 Has Mostly Nouveau, Intel i965, LLVMpipe, and GBM Fixes | Linux Today

Mesa 10.6.8 Has Mostly Nouveau, Intel i965, LLVMpipe, and GBM Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Sep 20, 2015

Mesa 10.6.8 brings numerous improvements to the Nouveau video driver for Nvidia GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). Among these, we can mention improved creation of scanout buffers, implement color resolve for MSAA, addresses an issue with the maximum width and height checks in NV30 sifm code, and removes support for the BGRA4 format.

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Marius Nestor

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