Linux: EXT4, Waffle, Mesa and Vulkan
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EXT4 Patches Continue Working On Case-Insensitive Filenames & Encoding
For those that have been wanting to see case-insensitive filename support or even encoding of filenames in UTF-8 or other character encoding, the work is still on going.
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi of Collabora has been working on this encoding-aware file-name look-ups for the EXT4 file-system and as part of that allowing case-insensitive filenames. The patches are now up to their fifth revision in recent months, but is going back a bit to the drawing board at the "request for comments" stage following some critiques to the design by Linus Torvalds.
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Waffle Is Still Cooking For X11/Wayland Agnostic OpenGL/GLES Apps
Waffle is the seven year old project that started out as an Intel side-project to allow run-time selection of X11/Wayland support as well as OpenGL or OpenGL ES. It's been a while since hearing much about Waffle, but it is still being consumed and improved upon.
Collabora's Emil Velikov presented on Waffle at this past weekend's FOSDEM 2019 conference in Brussels. He introduced Waffle for those unfamiliar with this means of making applications/games port portable by targeting this agnostic library that runs across the various windowing systems and graphics APIs. Waffle's usage is mostly by the likes of Piglit and other testing/developer libraries, but there has been an open-source game or two making use of it for easier Wayland support.
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Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware
For those running Ivybridge/Haswell era Intel graphics and older, better support for ETC2 texture compression is on the way.
Eleni Maria Stea of Igalia has been working on patches to improve the ETC2 format support for these "Gen 7" era graphics and older as they lack native ETC2 coverage. Following these improvements to better fake the ETC2 support, OES_copy_image support is now enabled for Gen 7 era graphics hardware.
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Vulkan 1.1.99 Is Out With Two New Extensions
Vulkan 1.1.99 is now available to kick off February and features two new extensions plus a number of documentation fixes/clarifications.
Vulkan 1.1.99 is the latest maintenance update to this graphics/compute specification. The issues resolved are all mostly mundane changes, but exciting us are two new extensions.
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