Ian Romanick wrote: > I noticed that some code from Mesa was recently folded into DRI to support > APPLE_client_storage. What does it take to enable that in a driver? Is it > like SGIS_generate_mipmaps in that the driver just needs to enable it? > > On a related note, some time ago (on an IRC meeting, I think) there was some > discussion about directly mapping Mesa backing store into AGP space. At the > time it seemed feasable, but there were still some issues. Has anyone given > this any thought in the meantime? As the texture requirements for games > explodes into the stratosphere, we'll be much better off if we can require > fewer copies textures. :) > > Maybe someday one of us will get to hardware accelerating > SGIS_generate_mipmaps... > >
The r200 driver has the allocator parts of GL_NV_vertex_array_range, and can do blit-uploads for texture images in agp space. Currently these require PACK_CLIENT_STORAGE (as uploads are normally lazy). We could do eager uploads when the pack parameter isn't present, I suppose. Keith ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
