On Mit, 2012-02-29 at 16:06 -0800, Benoit Jacob wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > On Die, 2012-02-28 at 09:08 -0800, Benoit Jacob wrote: > > > > > > At Mozilla we've been wondering if we could get a good software > > > fallback for users who can't get hardware-accelerated WebGL. Mesa > > > llvmpipe seems like the best open source OpenGL renderer, right? At > > > least, it performed superbly in our quick tests. > > > > [...] > > > > > 3. On GNU/Linux: why isn't Mesa llvmpipe installed by default by > > > most > > > distros? Is there a real reason or is it just that nobody asked for > > > it, or nobody saw a need for it? Trying to figure if llvmpipe > > > installed by default everywhere (on Linux) is something we can > > > realistically hope for. > > > > One thing to keep in mind for this is that llvmpipe currently doesn't > > work on PowerPC architectures > > PowerPC is not a big concern for us. > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Supported_build_configurations > > Besides x86 and x86-64, the other arch we care about is ARM (v7 and soon v6 > too).
E.g. Debian ships your browser on powerpc and many more architectures. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
