Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 support is marching toward its end in Mesa3D

[pal1000]

First step was done in Mesa3D 22.2 development cycle where Futex API is used by default bumping minimum requirements to Windows 8 / Server 2012. It can still be disabled for now so this poll purpose is to decide how to handle this for Mesa3D 22.2 stable cycle and beyond.

[Directox01]

I believe if we stop supporting win7 and 2008R2 you'll have much more time to focus on the newest version. So I believe there is no reason to waste time on win7 and 2008.
My vote: is NO

[pal1000]

Please read https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/17122 for consequences of keeping Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 support. It seams there is some performance penalty involved. I don't know if keeping Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 affects performance while running on Windows 8 / Server 2012 or newer.

[pal1000]

Keeping Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 support bit us as you predicted.

[Svyatpro]

I even want to mention it would be highly appreciated if there was a build for XP/2003

[pal1000]

Support for XP/Server 2003 was dropped a really long time ago and honestly I don't recall when.

[Svyatpro]

to be honest your latest opengl32.dll software wrapper works for me on XP/2003 with some compatibility hacks. But vulkan software icd doesn't work properly and I don't even know the reason. But it doesn't even work on Win10.
It is being detected as llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.5, 256 bits) by vulkan-info but no one Vulcan demo works and also dxvk crashes with it

[pal1000]

Vulkan was never supported on XP.
I don't know much about lavapipe crashing everything problem. Collecting a MSVC call stack or MinGW backtrace may help, You can make use of MSVC debug info and MinGW debug binaries.

[LionsPhil]

(An old release note claims "remove a relic about Windows XP/PosReady 2009, it is no longer supported since Mesa3D 17.2.0", so I assume 17.1.8.401-1 is probably the last to intentionally support XP?)