[$] A new direction for i965

Graphical applications are always pushing the limits of what the hardware
can do and
recent developments in the graphics world have caused Intel to rethink its
3D graphics driver. In particular, the lower CPU overhead that the Vulkan
driver on Intel hardware can
provide is becoming more attractive for OpenGL as well. At the 2018 X.Org Developers Conference Kenneth
Graunke
talked about an experimental re-architecting of the i965 driver using Gallium3D—a
development that came as something of a surprise to many, including him.