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

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