RE: [oglbase-discuss] GL_RENDERER strings

[Bernd Kreimeier]

Paul Bleisch writes:
 > As someone else mentioned...  isn't this beyond the scope
 > of oglbase?

I think the tread was (supposed to be) terminated in mutual 
agreement. Quite some time ago, actually.

                                            b.




p.s.: if you are seriously interested in details.

Michael Gold rightly pointed out that, if any formal requirements
would be imposed on strings retrieved from GL, an extension would
have to be defined. We can't retrofit GL_RENDERER with additional
requirements. No matter how we turn it, it has nothing to with 
ABI specs. Thomas Roell was merely trying to humor my request for 
a good list of tokens. 

 > >    Hightlevel-backed       (Mesa, SI, EV ...)
 > >    Lowlevel driver         (g400, permedia3 ...)
 > >    Chip-Name               (86C397P ...)
 > >    Memory on board         (32MB ...)
 > >    AGP Texture memory      (32MB ...)
 > >    DMA memory              (2048k ...)
 > >    Rendering Method        (direct vs. indirect)
 > >    2D driver               (??? ...)
 > >    CPU used                (K6, K7, PentiumII ... MMX, SMID, 3Dnow)
 > >    Board Vendor            (Hercules ...)
 > >    Board Name              (Xterminator-Whizbang-3D-Ultra)