Obviously that the performance is sometimes absolutely terrible is known. I'd wish it was not like that. Llvmpipe is not a good solution, nor are bad drivers.

Obviously that the performance is sometimes absolutely terrible is known. I'd wish it was not like that. Llvmpipe is not a good solution, nor are bad drivers. But IMO bad drivers are unacceptable. Why do we accept such sorry state? We had fallback mode for various years, as well as the need of GNOME 3 and Unity. Yet various drivers still are terrible. IMO I'd rather take the "my way or highway" approach: a driver is just plain not good enough. The hardware can do way more. Time to get your driver into the year 2005+.