http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25847
--- Comment #8 from Joakim Sindholt <b...@zhasha.com> 2010-01-02 08:52:53 PST --- Listen now, lots and lots of programs will check the extension string to determine whether certain functionality is available. So say you check for GLSL in order to do phong shading but in case it's not there you fall back to ff light. Now we have a problem because that program will see "oh, I have GLSL, let's shade away" and your application will run at horrendously bad speed. In order to fall back intelligently you will face a slightly harder problem. You can't read from textures in VRAM, and VRAM is where we store them to achieve good speed. Falling back would require either constantly migrating textures between VRAM and GART or just keeping them in GART thus taking a serious performance hit on everything that samples from textures. Now close your bug. I'm tired of getting e-mails of you acting smart. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
