Iago Toral
Senior graphics engineer, joined Igalia in 2003
Ourense (Spain)
I am a long time open source developer particularly interested in 3D graphics. In the last few years I have been a regular contributor to Mesa and the Intel open source graphics drivers for OpenGL and Vulkan, where I have been involved in feature development, bugfixing and driver conformance.
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V3DV Vulkan driver update: VkQuake1-3 now working
A few weeks ago we shared an update regarding the status of the Vulkan driver for the Raspberry Pi 4. In that post I mentioned that the plan was to...
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Raspberry Pi 4 V3D driver gets OpenGL ES 3.1 conformance
So continuing with the news, here is a fairly recent one: as the tile states, I am happy to announce that the Raspberry Pi 4 is now an OpenGL ES...
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Raspberry Pi 4 V3D driver gets Geometry Shaders
I actually landed this in Mesa back in December but never got to announce it anywhere. The implementation passes all the tests available in the Khrono
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I am working on the Raspberry Pi 4 Mesa V3D driver
Yeah… this blog post is well overdue, but better late than never! So yes, I am currently working on progressing the Raspberry Pi 4 Mesa driver stack,
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VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8 on Anvil
The last time I talked about my driver work was to announce the implementation of the shaderInt16 feature for the Anvil Vulkan driver back in May, and
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Intel Mesa Vulkan driver now supports shaderInt16
The Vulkan specification includes a number of optional features that drivers may or may not support, as described in chapter 30.1 Features. Applicatio
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Frame analysis of a rendering of the Sponza model
For some time now I have been working on a personal project to render the well known Sponza model provided by Crytek using Vulkan. Here is a picture o
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Improving shader performance with Vulkan’s specialization constants
For some time now I have been working on and off on a personal project with no other purpose than toying a bit with Vulkan and some rendering and shad...
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Intel Mesa driver for Linux is now Vulkan 1.1 conformant
It was only a few weeks ago when I posted that the Intel Mesa driver had successfully passed the Khronos OpenGL 4.6 conformance on day one, and now I
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