At the XDC2019 conference in Montreal, the head of the Khronos consortium Neil Trevett (Neil Trevett) the situation around open graphics drivers. He confirmed that developers can certify their driver versions for free against their OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenCL and Vulkan standards.
At the same time, it is important that they do not have to pay any deductions, as well as join the consortium. The most interesting thing is that applications can be submitted both for purely hardware and software implementations.
Once certified, the drivers will be added to the list of products that are officially compatible with Khronos specifications. As a result, this will allow independent developers to use the Khronos trademarks and claim support for all relevant standards.
Note that earlier Mesa drivers were certified by Intel with a separate request. And the Nouveau project still does not have official support from NVIDIA, so there are a lot of questions about it.
Thus, more and more companies use open source in their work and their own products. This allows you to save on development, as well as support open products. The latter is cheaper than creating your own analogue from scratch.
And the emergence of officially certified graphics drivers for Linux and Unix will bring more applications and games to these platforms, which at the moment may have problems on these platforms.
Source: 3dnews.ru