Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8

[Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert sxpert org>]

On 21 nov. 2012, at 21:11, David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:

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> “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).”
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> 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.

sure, I have a raspberry pi to try to use it on (the model with 256Mb of ram) !