--- title: Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa description: Panfrost, the open-source graphics driver for Arm Mali GPUs, has landed experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 support in upstream Mesa. The implementation adds instanced... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/experimental-panfrost-gles-3-0-support-has-landed-in-mesa-xjlthkmcf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa | daily.dev og:description: Panfrost, the open-source graphics driver for Arm Mali GPUs, has landed experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 support in upstream Mesa. The implementation adds instanced... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/experimental-panfrost-gles-3-0-support-has-landed-in-mesa-xjlthkmcf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xJltHKMCF.png og:image:alt: Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Panfrost, the open-source graphics driver for Arm Mali GPUs, has landed experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 support in upstream Mesa. The implementation adds instanced rendering, primitive restart, uniform buffer objects, 3D textures, and multiple render targets (Mali T760+). Games like SuperTuxKart now run with their ES 3.0 renderers. The driver currently passes 95% of dEQP ES 3.0 tests on Mali T860 hardware, with CI in place to ensure continued progress. To try it, compile the latest Mesa and set the environment variable PAN_MESA_DEBUG=gles3. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I enable experimental GLES 3.0 support in Panfrost on Mesa? Set the environment variable PAN_MESA_DEBUG=gles3 after compiling the latest upstream Mesa. The support requires a mainline Linux kernel and is still experimental. Multiple render targets require Mali T760 or newer hardware. CI runs dEQP ES 3.0 tests on Mali T860, and Panfrost passes 95% of those tests. _Developers targeting Mali hardware track Panfrost driver milestones like this on daily.dev._ ### What percentage of dEQP ES 3.0 tests does Panfrost pass? Panfrost passes 95% of the drawElements Quality Program (dEQP) ES 3.0 test suite, verified on Mali T860 hardware in a continuous integration lab. 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