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Youngest laptop here is from 2011: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM Maximu
by dingaling 10y ago
Youngest laptop here is from 2011:
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM
Maximum OpenGL version for that chipset is 2.0, apparently, though I can't find a way to push it beyond 1.4 on Linux
I appreciate that six years old is ancient by SV standards but I would be interested to learn what proportion of Firefox users are on equally old hardware. I did try launching Servo with CPU rendering but it hung indefinitely.
- akiselev 10y agoServo isn't a production ready consumer browser and it won't be for a long time because its purpose is to facilitate research into parallel browser engines. While a 2007 chipset may not be very old among the average consumer, it is probably not going to work for a developer machine that's going to be compiling a huge codebase under active development. I don't think the software fallback has gotten much love but AFAIK it'll work fine once llvmpipe support is added to webrender2 [1]. Once that is done, rendering will work with the vast majority of laptops and desktops running Linux/MacOS/Windows. The OpenGL version supported by that chipset is over a decade old so devoting time to compatibility this early in the project would be a waste of time (and defeat the purpose since the standard predates the explosion of mobile devices). [1] https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/13653 https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/13653