Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] gallium: Drop software-only primitive restart support.

2014-09-29 Thread Rob Clark
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net wrote: The drivers not flagging primitive restart support are r300 swtcl, svga, nv30, and vc4. The point of primitive restart is to slightly reduce draw call overhead for apps by batching multiple draws. If we do an extra pass to

[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] gallium: Drop software-only primitive restart support.

2014-09-04 Thread Eric Anholt
The drivers not flagging primitive restart support are r300 swtcl, svga, nv30, and vc4. The point of primitive restart is to slightly reduce draw call overhead for apps by batching multiple draws. If we do an extra pass to read the index buffer and split back into multiple draws, we've entirely