On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:33:11PM -0700, Jens Owen wrote: > magenta wrote: > > > > 3. Users should not be able to configure default behavior; applications > > should specify all behavior explicitly if it matters, and expose this as an > > application-level configuration option to the user > > > > Personally, I'm torn between camps 1 and 3. > > I'm squarely in camp 3 based on Allen's rationale and his experience.
Yeah, I am now too, after talking about the LD_PRELOAD idea. (I should have gone back and edited my message, which I wrote in a stream-of-consciousness manner.) > > Actually, I just thought of a solution which could possibly satisfy all > > three camps: have a libGL wrapper library (loaded via LD_PRELOAD) which > > overrides functionality as needed. Want to force FSAA to be enabled? Put > > it into glXCreateContext(). Want to force GL_RGB8 when the application > > chooses GL_RGB? Do it in glTexImage(). Hey, if you want to force GL_RGB4 > > when the application chooses GL_RGB8, you could do that too! > > > > Basically, I see no reason to put this configuration into the drivers > > themselves, as it could easily be done using an LD_PRELOADed library. > > > > The Chromium project has been doing this for a while. At SigGraph, I > saw a demo of quake3 running in wire frame mode using this type of trick. I wanted to see that, but it was one of those talks which I managed to miss all but the last 5 minutes of. :) I thought that Chromium was a complete libGL replacement (for the purpose of clustered rendering), though, and that the "wireframe" was really a complete reformatting of the OpenGL primitives. At least, that's what the paper in thne proceedings seems to indicate. > Let's strive to keep as much unneeded complexity as we can out of the > drivers. I definitely agree. -- http://trikuare.cx ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
