[Mesa-dev] [Bug 36295] Incorrect rendering in SPECviewperf benchmark

Sat Apr 16 18:49:14 PDT 2011

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36295

--- Comment #3 from Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> 2011-04-16 18:49:14 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> This is a bug in SPECviewperf11, which relies on NV_fragment_program2
> extension, even when it is not advertised.
> 
> Me and Brian have a patch that workarounds this by tolerating
> NV_fragment_program2 's IF/ELSE/ENDIF opcodes.
> 
> This is exactly the same stratergy that AMD's fglrx drivers took: not advertise
> NVIDIA's extension, but silently handle it.

Oh hell no.  Report this bug to spec.  Seriously.

Issues of differing names of instance ID is one thing, but giant piles of
functionality is completely different.  This is a MAJOR bug in viewperf.  It
needs to be reported to them, and they need to fix it.  Period.

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