While the parent's post could be stated better, I share part of this fear: What about the older GPUs?
Knowing the open source attitude, they'll probably enter maintenance mode and get bugfixes but only incidental improvements. And then be supported until the last piece of hardware goes to bit heaven. Which is fine by me.
But Intel is paying for development, and of course Intel wants us to buy the latest. Who can blame them? There will be some pushing from them to stop spending money on their old stuff.
Therefore, some statement in the blog post concerning this point would be appreciated.
> For AMD GPUs, Brazos owners are SOL after they rebooted the driver design, only having partial support for what fxglr was capable of.
Doesn't Northern Islands have OpenGL 4.4 (and all but one extension in 4.5, and about half of 4.6) w/ r600? What exactly is missing relative to the last FGLRX release for NI?
There's UVD support all the way back to R600 (the first AMD chipset to include UVD), two generations before Northern Islands (which I think is what Brazos has), and there has been since before fglrx was discontinued AFAICT. I think on most distributions this support is packaged separately from the rest of Mesa, which may be why you didn't see it.
Knowing the open source attitude, they'll probably enter maintenance mode and get bugfixes but only incidental improvements. And then be supported until the last piece of hardware goes to bit heaven. Which is fine by me.
But Intel is paying for development, and of course Intel wants us to buy the latest. Who can blame them? There will be some pushing from them to stop spending money on their old stuff.
Therefore, some statement in the blog post concerning this point would be appreciated.