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Date:      Sat, 8 Dec 2018 16:10:39 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>
Cc:        greg@unrelenting.technology, yuripv@yuripv.net,  "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [CFT] Mesa 18.3.0 update (mesa-libs, mesa-dri, libosmesa, clover)
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On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 1:38 PM Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > As far as firefox is concerned, I tried running it with the "MOZ"
> variables
> > Jan listed, but I still got the same status message in about:support. I
> > also looked though about:config for relevant settings, but came up blank.
>
> That's expected. Environment variables override hardware qualifications.
> Whether WebRender is actually in-use is decided by Compositing field.
> WebRender (like WebGL 2) requires OpenGL 3.2+ which SandyBridge supports.
> If it fails you'd see "unavailable by runtime: WebRender initialization
> failed".
>
>   $ MOZ_ACCELERATED=1 MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 firefox --new-instance --profile
> $(mktemp -dt ffprofile) about:support
>   [...]
>   Features
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Compositing           WebRender
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   WebGL 2 Driver Renderer       Intel Open Source Technology Center --
> Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   WebGL 2 Driver Version        4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.3.0
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   [...]
>   Decision Log
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   HW_COMPOSITING        blocked by default: Acceleration blocked by
> platform
>                         available by user: Enabled by envvar
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   WEBRENDER             opt-in by default: WebRender is an opt-in feature
>                         available by user: Force enabled by envvar
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   WEBRENDER_QUALIFIED   blocked by env: No qualified hardware
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If you're curious how fast WebRender is try toggling
> gfx.webrender.debug.profiler
> which would enable profiling overlay that shows FPS, CPU/GPU usage, etc.
>

With entering the variables correctly, I see both as enabled by user, but
the profiler sees no GPU use at all. about:support output exactly matches
what you show.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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