Re: Bug#857172: Please enable SSE2 on amd64 and disable altivec on PPC ports
Hi,
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, luigi burdo wrote:
> I can say for sure one thing. AmigaOs4 have one "external" library that
> work better than Mesa linux too.
>
> It is the warp3d nova who dont have endianess in colors and work with
> all RadeonSI gpus
You are comparing apples to oranges. Warp3D Nove is a low level gateway to
the GPU's shader processors, and some external (as in: it's a separate
executable, IIRC) shader compiler tool added to it (which is BTW, only a
port of Kronos' SPIR-V compiler), plus an optional OpenGL ES2 layer on top
of it. It's a much much much simpler stack than a full fledged MESA
implementation. Also, it was done by the same guy who wrote the Radeon
driver underneath, and it only supports a single GPU family so far, which
also makes everything a lot simpler.
But what makes the real difference, it has a dedicated maintainer, which
is not true for MESA, or GPU drivers on (big endian) Linux/PowerPC.
As it is now, Warp3D Nova might deliver more impressive results for home
users with toys and games on a specific hardware, but not suitable to
support large CAD/CAM and professional 3D software, and doesn't serve as a
quasi-reference open source implementation for an all-industry graphics
standard.
Charlie
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