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Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 April 2026

As a small but interesting addition coming for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is making it easy to simulate a GPU reset with the LLVMpipe software driver. While seemingly mundane, this can be quite handy for compositor developers and other app/software developers wanting to more easily test how their code behaves when encountering a GPU reset...