On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Jerome Glisse <j.gli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> wrote: >> One of the uglier bits of the classic drivers, in my opinion, is the >> ChooseTexFormat hook. Most drivers are trying to get to a similar set >> of formats, and using similar fallbacks for unavailable formats. >> Worse, they need to cleverly choose formats based on the incoming >> type/format to avoid having to munge the data on the way in if >> possible, and everyone needs to work those out. So, rather than >> having each driver have these smarts, move it to the core. >> >> There are still some rough edges. There are not enough fallbacks yet >> to cover everything (see i810 for example), so drivers with a more >> restricted set of supported formats may need to add more lines to >> _mesa_choose_tex_format. Also, the endianness-dependent choice of >> formats in texmem.c and radeon's texturing isn't merged -- I knew I'd >> mess it up somehow if I did it on my own, so I'm leaving radeon for >> someone with big-endian to finish off. >> >> Any complaints, or should I go ahead and merge this? > > Do we care about all those old GPU ? r128, sis .. ? To me it seems > like we pretend they work but my feeling is that no one use them. > I think only radeon, nouveau & intel classic driver are still in use. > For the others i wouldn't mind stop pretending supporting them and > removing them from the tree.
I'll support tdfx, mga, and (when I can get the damn thing POSTing) r128. I have an sis VGA-USB thingy as well, but that'll take some hacking and probably can't do 3D, so whatever. -- When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? ~ Keynes Corbin Simpson <mostawesomed...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
