Patrice Mandin wrote:
> Le Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:24:39 +0200
> Roland Scheidegger <[email protected]> a écrit:
> 
>> Yes, seems so. In fact if you take a newer spec it'll list
>> BlendEquationSeparate as promoted to core in 2.0.
>>
>>> Ah OK. Then I think I should write some test for renouveau, so I check
>>> what Nvidia do when using these functions on nv30.
>> AFAIK Nvidia did BlendFuncSeparate in software for nv20/25 so I'd guess
>> it could be the same for BlendEquationSeparate for nv30. Though maybe
>> the chip is flexible enough somehow to not require this.
> 
> Well, from the simple renouveau test we currently have, a fragment
> program is used on nv30 for this function, so currently no change is
> required in Mesa. However nv30 gallium backend should be modified to
> take this into account.

If there are other chipsets that cannot do true separate alpha blend, we 
can always use PIPE_CAP to let Mesa know, and Mesa can do the fragment 
program alteration itself. (r3xx and r4xx also have this, so it might be 
useful later on.)

~ C.

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