On 2012-11-21 20:53, Raphaël Jacquot <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't talk often on this list, for lack of available time, but have the
following to say :
The decision is all nice and well. however this will force people that don't
have the latest and greatest accelerated hardware to switch to something else.
most PCs that are more that 2 years old are probably out of the game.
This was covered in the ‘Description’ section of the
DropOrFixFallbackMode page that Matthias linked to:
https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode
“Since the release of 3.0, a technology called llvmpipe has allowed for
fast software rendering, lowering the need for the fallback mode.
However llvmpipe doesn't currently work on some architectures (ppc,
s390, arm?--ARM (hf) works-shawnl) and might not work in some
non-Linux-based OS (OpenBSD support is not there, for instance).”
If you would care to test llvmpipe with GNOME Shell and report back on
the performance, I am sure that would be a useful data point for the
discussion. Personally, I use GNOME Shell on some hardware from 3 years
ago and the (accelerated) performance seems fine.
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