Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8

[David King <amigadave amigadave com>]

On 2012-11-21 20:53, Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert sxpert org> 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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