On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 21:00 +0200, Maciej Cencora wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?

The driver certainly used to have special code for non-32-bit elts on
big endian. How can I test this on my PowerBook?


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