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Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers
As part of the transition to eventually drop the long dormant Clover OpenCL state tracker from Mesa's Gallium3D codebase in favor of the modern OpenCL Rusticl Rust-written driver, Mesa 25.0 has ended Clover support for NIR-based drivers.
Rusticl is exposing OpenCL 3.0, well maintained, working with an increasing number of drivers, and much better off than the effectively dead Clover code. Dropping the NIR driver support from Clover lightens the Mesa codebase by nearly two thousand lines of code. Eventually the Clover code itself will be completely removed from the Mesa codebase in favor of Rusticl.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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