Luca Barbieri made a rather significant commit today that adds a state tracker dubbed "d3d1x", which implements the Direct3D 10/11 COM API in Gallium3D. Luca says this is just the initial version, but its already working and can run a few DirectX 10/11 texturing demos on Linux at the moment.
Read more »Mesa Makes More Strides Towards OpenGL 3.x Support
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While the 3.0 revision to this industry standard graphics API has been around for nearly three years, it's still not fully supported by the open-source Mesa graphics stack. Progress though is being made.
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Mesa 7.5 Finally Released w/ New Features
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After being in development for a number of months and being challenged by a few delays, Mesa 7.5 was officially released last night. What's most significant about this milestone is that it's the first release to include the Gallium3D architecture.
Read more »[FSF] Thank you SGI, for freeing the GNU/Linux 3D desktop!
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The GNU/Linux 3D desktop is now free! Finally, direct rendering support! :)
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Mesa 7.0, OpenGL 2.0/2.1 Support
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Last Friday Mesa 7.0 had entered the world. While a number of bugs have been corrected since Mesa 6.5.3, what is most interesting with this release is the support for the OpenGL 2.0 / 2.1 API. We've been waiting on this support so that the open-source drivers can take advantage of it and it's now finally available.
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