[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 02/10] mesa: Add renderbuffer accessors for MESA_FORMAT_RGBA_FLOAT32.

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Mon Apr 18 19:12:08 PDT 2011


On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:33:49 -0700 (PDT), Jose Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> wrote:
> I don't want to make further comments about software rendering at this point. 
> 
> But regardless, core Mesa should not have code disabled by
> TEXTURE_FLOAT_ENABLED, because patent doesn't apply equally to all
> drivers. For now we can say that svga pipe driver does not
> infringe. And it's possible that in the future the IHVs come forward
> and license the patent for their hardware that covers open source
> drivers. Such drivers can/should enable ARB_float_texture regardless
> of TEXTURE_FLOAT_ENABLED define.

Sounds great to me.  I decided to err massively on the side of
conservative until someone said otherwise, so I'll pull those ifdefs out
now.
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