Editing Mesa (computer graphics) (section)

=== History ===
Original authors of Gallium3D were Keith Whitwell and Brian Paul at Tungsten Graphics (acquired by [[VMware]] in 2008).<ref>{{cite web |last=Marshall |first=David |date=16 December 2008 |title=VMware's year end acquisition of Tungsten Graphics |publisher=InfoWorld |url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/2638430/virtualization/vmware-s-year-end-acquisition-of-tungsten-graphics.html }}</ref>

==== Milestones ====

As of fall 2011, there were at least 10 known, mature and working Gallium3D drivers.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gallium/
|title = Gallium
|website= Freedesktop.org
|date = 2 November 2011
|access-date = 24 August 2012
}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=October 2013}}{{Citation needed|date=October 2013}} Open-source drivers for Nvidia graphics cards by the name of [[nouveau (software)|Nouveau]] team develops its drivers using the Gallium3D framework.<ref name=companion-36 /><ref>
{{cite web
|url = https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Nouveau_Companion_37
|title = Nouveau Companion 37
|website = Nouveau.freedesktop.org
|date = 21 March 2008
|access-date = 1 April 2008
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120208005444/http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Nouveau_Companion_37
|archive-date = 8 February 2012
|url-status = dead
|df = dmy-all
}}
</ref>

'''2008-07-13:''' Nouveau development is done exclusively for the Gallium framework. The old DRI driver was removed from the master branch of the Mesa repository on Freedesktop.org.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=93115c4b235896df097b91edec7458a8a4488c4e
|title = nouveau: say goodbye to the old DRI driver... (cgit on FDO)|website=Cgit.freedesktop.org
|date = 13 July 2008
}}</ref>

'''2009-02-11:''' The gallium-0.2 branch was merged into mainline Master branch of Mesa.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzA1Ng
|title = Gallium3D Now in Mainline Mesa Code-Base!|website=Phoronix.com
|date = 11 February 2009
}}</ref> Development is done in Mesa mainline.

'''2009-02-25:''' Gallium3D can run on Linux as well as FreeBSD kernels.<ref>{{cite web |last=Larabel |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Larabel |date=25 February 2009 |title=Gallium3D, EGL Now Buildable on FreeBSD |publisher=[[Phoronix]] |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzA5Mg }}</ref>

'''2009-05-01:''' Zack Rusin from Tungsten Graphics added the [[OpenVG]] state tracker to Mesa 3D,<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200905011303.10970.zackr@vmware.com&forum_name=mesa3d-dev
|title = OpenVG state tracker is in Mesa 3D|website=Sourceforge.net
|date = 1 May 2009
}}</ref> which enables [[Scalable Vector Graphics]] to be hardware-accelerated by any Gallium3D-based driver.

'''2009-07-17:''' Mesa3D 7.5 is released, the first version to include Gallium3D.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes-7.5.html
|title = Mesa 7.5 Release Notes / 17 July 2009
|website = Mesa3d.org
|date = 17 July 2009
|access-date = 12 September 2017
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100613083500/http://mesa3d.org/relnotes-7.5.html
|archive-date = 13 June 2010
|url-status = dead
|df = dmy-all
}}
</ref>

'''2010-09-10:''' Initial support for the Evergreen GPUs was added to the r600g driver.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=50526e094f4c66957c7f74c190c35903bc82fb62
|title = r600g: add initial evergreen support (cgit on FDO)|website=Cgit.freedesktop.org
|date = 10 September 2010
}}</ref>

'''2010-09-21:''' There are two Gallium3D drivers for ATI hardware known as r300g and r600g for R300-R500 and R600-Evergreen GPUs respectively.

'''2010-09-21:''' Major commits were made to the code to support Direct3D 10 and 11.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=92617aeac109481258f0c3863d09c1b8903d438b
|title = d3d1x: add new Direct3D 10/11 COM state tracker for Gallium|website=Cgit.freedesktop.org
|date = 21 September 2010
}}</ref> In time, this might offer the ability to use recent Direct3D implementations on Linux systems.

'''2011-11-30:''' Intel 965g and Cell Gallium drivers were removed from the master branch of Mesa as unmaintained and broken.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyMTA
|title = The Gallium3D Intel 965 Driver Gets Dropped
|publisher = [[Phoronix]]
|last = Larabel
|first = Michael
|author-link = Michael Larabel
|page = 1
|date = 30 November 2011
|access-date = 1 December 2011
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyMTM
|title = The Gallium3D Cell Driver Gets Dropped Too
|publisher = [[Phoronix]]
|last = Larabel
|first = Michael
|author-link = Michael Larabel
|page = 1
|date = 30 November 2011
|access-date = 1 December 2011
}}</ref>

'''2013-11-30:''' Mesa 10 with OpenGL 3.2, 3.3 and OpenCL 1.0+

'''2014-11-18:''' Major commits were made to the code to support Direct3D 9.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=fdd96578ef2dfe9c4ad5aab5858036298d444a64
|title = nine: Add state tracker nine for Direct3D9 (v3)|website=Cgit.freedesktop.org
|date = 18 November 2014
}}</ref>

'''2015-09-15:''' Mesa 11 with OpenGL 4.0, 4.1 and OpenCL 1.2 (incomplete)

'''2015-12-15:''' Mesa 11.1 Driver VIRGL for virtual machines with OpenGL 3.3

'''2016-07-08:''' Mesa 12 with OpenGL 4.2, 4.3 and Vulkan 1.0 (Intel ANV and AMD RADV)

'''2016-11-01:''' Mesa 13 with OpenGL 4.4 and OpenGL ES 3.2

'''2017-02-13:''' Mesa 17.0 with OpenGL 4.5 and freedreno driver with OpenGL 3.0 and 3.1

'''2017-05-10:''' Mesa 17.1 OpenGL 4.2+ for Intel Ivy Bridge (more than Intel driver for Windows, OpenGL 3.3+ for Intel Open SWR Rasterizer (important for cluster Computer for huge simulations)

'''2017-12-08:''' Mesa 17.3 AMD Vulkan Driver RADV full compliant in Khronos Test of Vulkan 1.0

'''2018-05-18:''' Mesa 18.1 with Vulkan 1.1 (Intel ANV and AMD RADV)

'''2018-09-07:''' Mesa 18.2 with OpenGL 4.3 for Soft Driver VIRGL (important for virtual machines in cloud Cluster Computer), OpenGL ES 3.1 for Freedreno with Adreno A5xx

'''2019-06-11:''' Mesa 19.1 released with Intel's next generation 'iris' graphics driver for generation 8+ iGPUs<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-19.1.0-Released|title=Mesa 19.1 Released With Experimental Intel Gallium3D, Other New GL/VLK Drivers Too - Phoronix|website=www.phoronix.com|access-date=21 September 2019}}</ref>

'''2019-12-11:''' Mesa 19.3 released OpenGL 4.6 with Intel i965 with gen 7+ and optional Iris Gen 8+

'''2020-03-18:''' Mesa 20.0 released OpenGL 4.6 with AMD GCN and Vulkan 1.2 for Intel

'''2020-05-27:''' Mesa 20.1 released NIR vectorisation support and shared virtual memory support for OpenCL in Clover

'''2020-11-30:''' Mesa 20.3 full support of OpenCL 1.2 in Clover<ref name="ReferenceC"/>

'''2021-03-11:''' Mesa 21.0 initial support of "D3D12“: Direct 3D 12 for WSL2 in Windows 10 with OpenGL 3.3+, ARM Freedreno: OpenGL 3.3+

'''2021-05-05:''' Mesa 21.1 initial support of Google VirtIO GPU Driver "Venus“ with Vulkan 1.2+; Zink: OpenGL 4.6+, OpenGL ES 3.1+; Qualcomm Turnip, Lavapipe: Vulkan 1.1+

'''2021-08-04:''' Mesa 21.2 initial support of new Intel Crocus OpenGL 4.6 driver based on gallium3D to Intel Sandy Bridge to Haswell for old i965, Vulkan Driver panVK for ARM Panfrost

'''2022-03-09:''' Mesa 22.0 full support of Vulkan 1.3 by Intel Anvil and AMD RADV

'''2023-05-10:''' Mesa 23.1 OpenCL with Rust: RustiCL for AMD GCN Hardware available (more hardware wip)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.1-Released | title=Mesa 23.1 Released with RadeonSI Rusticl-OpenCL, RADV GPL }}</ref>

'''2023-09-30:''' Mesa 23.2 with Apple Asahi OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0, RADV supports Ray Tracing in AMD RDNA 2 and 3, Intel Anvil Vulkan H.265 decoding support <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.2-Branched | title=Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes with Numerous New Vulkan Extensions }}</ref>