On 01.06.2009 05:19, Mike Kaplinskiy wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Roland Scheidegger <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 01.06.2009 01:57, Mike Kaplinskiy wrote: >>> I was wondering if s3tc support was ever coming to gallium in the same >>> way as in classic mesa (libtxc_dxtn). It doesn't seem like a bad thing >>> to have and it will help with fallback for cards that don't support >>> hardware decompression (notably i915). >> i915 certainly supports s3tc. >> >> Roland >> > > Sorry, I guess I didn't quite do my homework. It's a little confusing > that we have to force s3tc conversion on/use libdxtn to enable hw > based conversion on an i915 (classic mesa). > > Regardless, is S3 hw-based compression coming to the i915?
Well, no chip can do hw-based compression (only decompression) (actually you should be able to do it with those gpgpu-capable chips) so no. Can't tell you much about the status of s3tc in gallium, s3tc is a frustrating issue. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
