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Mesa 24.3 Removes Support For The Long-Abandoned OpenMAX API
Some long-rotting code in Mesa has been flushed out today..
Some long-rotting code in Mesa has been flushed out today... Mesa 24.3 is now 11.6k lines of code lighter after removing support for the OpenMAX (OMX) API that was implemented as a Gallium3D state tracker long ago and hasn't seen any activity in recent years and the upstream OpenMAX standards work halted more than one decade ago. OpenMAX was a royalty-free cross-platform API for audio / video / image processing particularly for mobile / embedded systems. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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