Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> writes:

> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 19:22 +0100, Francisco Jerez wrote: 
>> Keith Whitwell <kei...@vmware.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:45 -0800, Francisco Jerez wrote:
>> >> So far the frontbuffer was only being flushed on st_glFlush and
>> >> st_glFinish, however, a co-state tracker may need to make sure that
>> >> any frontbuffer changes are already on its way to the actual front.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure this is true -- GL spec states that rendering to GL_FRONT
>> > is not necessarily visible until after GLFlush() or GLFinish() has been
>> > called.  That seems to match the current behaviour.
>> >
>> We need to do this before throwing the current fake front away and
>> allocating a new one: Otherwise, if there's any unflushed rendering it
>> will be lost.
>
> I think a better solution for that would be to only update the fake
> front buffer on a glFlush.

That wouldn't work with an event-driven GL application (discussed here: 
http://marc.info/?l=mesa3d-dev&m=126416503326871&w=2).

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