Article 5MS25 OpenGL Drivers In 2021 Still Sadly Benefit From Faking Their Driver Name / GPU

OpenGL Drivers In 2021 Still Sadly Benefit From Faking Their Driver Name / GPU

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Years ago particularly when the open-source Linux GPU drivers were in their infancy it was known in some cases having to fake/spoof the GPU driver name or model in order to workaround artificial bugs / problematic code paths targeted to a particular OpenGL driver or even to achieve greater performance. With a new Mesa merge request called "Unleash the dragon!", this is still very much a problem in 2021 even now in the Android space...
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