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Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine
While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove some previously-deprecated code from the codebase.
Gallium Nine was very interesting years ago but these days DXVK for D3D9 and later atop the Vulkan API is much more performant, works for non-Mesa drivers too, and is actively maintained. Also removed for Mesa 25.2 is deleting the deprecated Gallium XA code that was used for X.Org Server acceleration and originally started by VMware for pairing with their DDX driver. 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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