Am Saturday 30 May 2009 21:00:51 schrieb Maciej Cencora:
> this round of patches for r300 brings:
> 1) hardware accelerated support for 8bit and 16bit vertex attribute data
> formats,
> 2) support for 16bit vertex indices,
> 3) support for EXT_vertex_array_bgra extension,
> 4) T&L path cleanup. it's used when hardware TCL is enabled, but we have to
> fallback for software TCL - clipping is still done in hardware unlike in
> software TCL path.

Thanks for this work!

> Those patches are unfinished, to be done:
> 1) unmap bo's after rendering is finished
> Currently the map/unmap functions are noop so it's working ok, but when we
> will add support for VBO's it won't work.
>
> 2) handle big endian machines correctly
> Is this really an issue?

Good question. Anybody who works on big-endian able to fill in the gaps of 
whether (and if so, where) the card needs to be setup for byteswap?

> 3) testing
> Currently I've tested these patches only with some simple apps from
> mesa/progs, sauerbraten game and with 3dmark 2000 on wine (patches give
> nice performance boost here, the "high polygon count" test result increased
> from 6M tris/sec to 8M tris/sec on my rv380).
>
> 4) rename 4th commit ;)
>
> Please review and comment.

The general structure of the patches is looking good. For the rest, see IRC 
#radeon...

cu,
Nicolai

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