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AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests   Mesa   2023-08-10
Linux 6.6 DRM-Misc-Next Carries VirtIO Sync Objects, Other Improvements   Linux Kernel   2023-08-03
AMD Expands Mesa Virgl Video Acceleration For Using On Xen   Mesa   2023-07-19
AMD Improving Xen VirtIO GPU Support For In-Vehicle Infotainment, Using RADV   AMD   2023-07-05
Mesa's Venus VirtIO-GPU Driver Adds More Extensions To Help Zink   Mesa   2023-06-11
Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan   Virtualization   2023-06-07
Mesa 23.2 Virgl Lands Support For OpenGL 4.6 Inside Virtual Machines   Virtualization   2023-05-27
AMD Working On VirtIO GPU & Passthrough GPU Support For Xen Virtualization   Radeon   2023-03-13
VirtIO Native Context Being Worked On For AMD Drivers To Enhance VM Performance   Radeon   2023-03-11
Mesa 23.0 Graphics Drivers Aim For Release Next Week   Mesa   2023-01-25
Mesa 23.0 Feature Development Ends With Many Vulkan Additions   Mesa   2023-01-12
Mesa 22.3.1 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-12-15
Virgl Adds Accelerated Video Encoding To Guest VMs   Mesa   2022-11-18
VirtIO-GPU Venus Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3   Vulkan   2022-10-13
Mesa 22.2.1 Released With Dozens Of OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-10-12
VirtGPU DRM Native Contexts Show Potential For Good VM Gaming Performance   Virtualization   2022-10-11
Mesa 22.2 Lands The Big Removal Of Old GLSL-To-TGSI Path, Now Always Going Through NIR   Mesa   2022-05-05
VMware Lands SVGAv3 In Mesa 22.2 For Their Virtual Graphics Device   Virtualization   2022-04-26
Mesa Prepares To Drop Old GLSL-To-TGSI - Big Code Removal, Win For Performance & Fixes   Mesa   2022-04-20
Mesa's Venus VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Adds Code To Handle ANGLE   Mesa   2022-03-04
Mesa's Virgl Preparing To Transition To Using NIR Over TGSI   Virtualization   2022-02-20
Mesa's Virgl Code Lands Optimization For Lowering Memory Use   Mesa   2021-12-09
Getting Experimental Vulkan Within QEMU VMs Using Linux 5.16+ Paired With Mesa's Venus   Virtualization   2021-11-26
Linux 5.16 To Feature More Extensible VirtIO GPU Driver With "Context Types" Addition   Virtualization   2021-09-30
Zink Now Achieves OpenGL ES 3.2 Atop Vulkan   Mesa   2021-08-31
Google Working On Making VirtIO-GPU More Extensible   Virtualization   2021-08-26
Mesa 21.2.1 Released With "Nice Changes For Almost Everyone"   Mesa   2021-08-19
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver For Open-Source Arm Mali Graphics Now Has OpenGL ES 3.1   Mesa   2021-06-10
VirtIO-GPU/Graphics Support Is Improving In QEMU But Slowly   Virtualization   2021-05-22
Virglrenderer Sees Some New Micro-Optimizations   Mesa   2021-05-17
Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2021-05-05
Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features   Mesa   2021-04-14
Mesa's Virgl Straps On A Simple Disk Cache   Mesa   2021-04-14
Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.1   Mesa   2021-04-08
VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Looks To Go Upstream In Mesa   Mesa   2021-04-05
Mesa 19.3.1 Released With A Few Intel + Radeon Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2019-12-18
Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To Build By Default   Mesa   2019-12-07
VirtIO-GPU Working Towards Vulkan Support, Other Features For Graphics In VMs   Virtualization   2019-11-29
Mesa 19.2 Released With Navi Support, Much Improved Intel Gallium3D   Mesa   2019-09-25
Virglrenderer 0.8 Offers Better Open-Source OpenGL Support To KVM/QEMU Guests   Virtualization   2019-08-28
Mesa 19.0.7 Now Available As The Last Of The Series   Mesa   2019-06-25
Mesa 19.2's Virgl Sees Huge Performance Win Around Buffer Copy Transfers   Mesa   2019-06-08
Red Hat Is Looking To Hire Another Experienced Open-Source Graphics Driver Developer   Red Hat   2019-05-14
VIRTIO 1.1 Released With 2D Graphics Support, Evdev Input Device   Virtualization   2019-04-19
A Bunch Of New Code Merged Into Mesa 19.1: Intel ANV, Iris, Softpipe, Virgl   Mesa   2019-04-09
Virgl Lands A Number Of Performance Optimizations In Mesa 19.1   Virtualization   2019-02-15
Zink Is Moving Ahead In 2019 As Mesa-Based OpenGL-Over-Vulkan   Mesa   2019-02-06
Virgl Gallium3D Inching Closer To OpenGL 4.4, Crosses Off ARB_query_buffer_object   Mesa   2019-01-31
Linux 5.1 Picking Up Intel Coffeelake GVT, More Icelake IDs Added   Intel   2019-01-28
VIRTIO 1.1 Standard Moving Closer To Release With GPU Device, Better Performance   Virtualization   2019-01-26
Mesa 18.2.8 Released With Driver Fixes To End Out The Series   Mesa   2018-12-27
Mesa 18.2.8 Packing RADV / Meson / New Vega IDs As An End To The Series   Mesa   2018-12-25
Mesa 18.3 Expected For Release Tomorrow   Mesa   2018-12-05
The X.Org / Mesa GPU Talks From XDC2018 Are Now Available   X.Org   2018-10-10
The Current Performance Of Virgl3D, Future Plans   Mesa   2018-10-01
Mesa 18.2 Released With Vega 20 Support, OpenGL 4.4 Compat Profile & A Lot More   Mesa   2018-09-07
Mesa 18.2 Should Now Be Clear For Releasing With Its Many OpenGL/Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2018-09-01
Vulkan VirGL Ends The Summer Being Able To Execute A Compute Shader   Vulkan   2018-08-28
Mesa 18.2 Is Releasing Soon With Many OpenGL / Vulkan Driver Improvements   Mesa   2018-08-21
Mesa 18.2 Branched, Mesa 18.3 Enters Development   Mesa   2018-08-02
ASTC Gallium Bits Land, VirGL Already Hits OpenGL 4.3 + GLES 3.2   Mesa   2018-08-01
Mesa's VirGL Now Has OpenGL 4.2 Support To Offer Guest VMs   Mesa   2018-07-31
Mesa 18.2 Is On The Final Days Of Development With Many New Features Coming   Mesa   2018-07-26
Vulkan-Virgl Continues Progressing For Getting Vulkan Within VMs   Vulkan   2018-07-10
Mesa's VirGL For OpenGL Within VMs Now Supports Tessellation Shaders   Mesa   2018-06-15
VirGL Now Capable Of OpenGL 4.1 With Latest Mesa   Virtualization   2018-06-11
Tracking Mesa's VirGL OpenGL Features   Virtualization   2018-06-07
Mesa 18.1.1 Released With Many OpenGL + Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2018-06-01
The Virtual KMS Module Has Begun Progressing As Part Of GSoC 2018   X.Org   2018-05-28
Vulkan Virgl Has Kicked Off For Supporting This Graphics/Compute API Within VMs   Vulkan   2018-05-27
Collabora Working On VirGL OpenGL ES Improvements, OpenGL ES For QEMU   Virtualization   2018-05-09
The Most Interesting Google GSoC 2018 Projects: QEMU Vulkan, Virtual KMS, Nautilus GTK4   Google   2018-04-24
Mesa 17.3.7 Released With A Bunch Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-03-21
Mesa 17.3.4 Released With 90+ Changes   Mesa   2018-02-15
Google & Collabora Working On OpenGL ES 2.0 Virtualized GPU Access For Containers   Virtualization   2018-02-12
Linux Graphics Trends Over The Past Five Years   Hardware   2018-01-13
Android-x86 7.1-rc2 Now Supports NVMe SSDs, Better QEMU VirGL   Operating Systems   2017-10-22
3D OpenGL Acceleration For Windows Guests On QEMU Using VirGL/VirtIO   Virtualization   2017-08-27
QEMU Is Interested In Vulkan Guest Support "Vulkan-ize Virgl"   Virtualization   2017-03-20
Virt-Manager 1.4 Exposes The New OpenGL Options   Virtualization   2016-06-19
Android-x86 6.0-RC1 Released With OpenGL ES Via Mesa, Linux 4.4.12   Google   2016-06-09
Early Virgil 3D Results Show This Virtual GPU For QEMU Has Room For Improvement   Virtualization   2016-05-19
QEMU 2.6 Is Due In Just Over One Week With Many New Features   Virtualization   2016-04-23
QEMU 2.6 Is Coming With Many Improvements   Virtualization   2016-03-30
Mesa 11.2-RC3 Now Available, Mesa 11.2 Hopefully Coming This Week   Mesa   2016-03-07
The VirGL Virtual OpenGL Renderer Is Growing Up   Virtualization   2016-02-15
Open-Source / Linux Enthusiasts Have A Lot To Be Thankful For This Year   Free Software   2015-12-30
The Mesmerizing Mesa Milestones Of 2015   Mesa   2015-12-27
QEMU 2.5 Is Near With 3D GPU Support & More   Virtualization   2015-12-07
Features To Find With Mesa 11.1   Mesa   2015-11-27
QEMU 2.5-RC0 Released, Supports VirtIO-GPU 3D Mode   Virtualization   2015-11-14
Features Published So Far In The Linux 4.4 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2015-11-09
Linux 4.4 DRM Pull Has Raspberry Pi Driver, AMDGPU Improvements   Hardware   2015-11-08
KVM Changes Announced For Linux 4.4 Kernel   Virtualization   2015-11-05
Looking Forward To The Linux 4.4 Merge Window Next Week   Linux Kernel   2015-10-28
The Latest Fun In Mesa 3D This Weekend   Mesa   2015-10-25
VirGL VirtIO 3D GPU Driver Added To Gallium3D   Mesa   2015-10-23
Virgil3D Is Still Happening, New 3D Test Harness Created   Virtualization   2015-03-16