--- title: OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine | daily.dev description: A new OpenGL extension, MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer, has been added to the OpenGL Registry. Developed by Derek Lesho of CodeWeavers, the extension allows... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/opengl-lands-new-extension-to-benefit-wine-tjgwi0dr7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine | daily.dev og:description: A new OpenGL extension, MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer, has been added to the OpenGL Registry. Developed by Derek Lesho of CodeWeavers, the extension allows... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/opengl-lands-new-extension-to-benefit-wine-tjgwi0dr7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TjGWi0DR7.png og:image:alt: OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine 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. # OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new OpenGL extension, MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer, has been added to the OpenGL Registry. Developed by Derek Lesho of CodeWeavers, the extension allows applications to specify pointer ranges for buffer mapping. Its primary purpose is to help Wine handle its OpenGL 32-bit ABI on 64-bit Linux by enabling the driver to map buffer objects into 32-bit address ranges, improving performance over existing workarounds like VK_EXT_map_memory_placed and AMD_pinned_memory. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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