Re: [Mesa-dev] Mesa compatibility range

2019-04-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 15:37 +, Jonathan Jackson wrote: > 1. My question is: Is it reasonable to think that llvmpipe (or other > drivers) will grand me a much wider > array of supported system if I use that implementation over the original > Windows one? I'm reasonably sure that llvmpi

Re: [Mesa-dev] Mesa compatibility range

2019-04-10 Thread Timothy Arceri
Not really answering your question directly but Desktop chips have had 2.1 support for the past 12+ years. IMO trying to support systems older than that is going to be more trouble than its worth, llvmpipe is unlikely to give you very good performance on a system that old. On 11/4/19 1:37 am,

[Mesa-dev] Mesa compatibility range

2019-04-10 Thread Jonathan Jackson
Hi all, I am currently building an application using VTK 8.1 which requires OpenGL 2.1, or more recent, Support. Because I want to be able to run my application on as many systems as possible, I am Contemplating using a software renderer for cases where the system does not support OpenGL 2.1. A