[Mesa-dev] Patches to make Gallium drivers respect the force_s3tc_enable environment variable

[Brian Paul]

On 07/20/2011 04:53 PM, Bryan Cain wrote:
> The purpose of the following two patches is to make st/mesa expose the S3TC
> extensions when the force_s3tc_enable environment variable is used.  This is
> to match the behavior of the DRI drivers, in which force_s3tc_enable is an
> option in driconf.  Although st/mesa can't use the driconf functions, it can
> at least respect the environment variable for this option.
>
> These patches have been tested with fs2_open 3.6.12 and the Freespace 2
> MediaVPs.  Setting force_s3tc_enable=true makes the game run flawlessly
> without libtxc_dxtn, whereas without it the game writes several error messages
> to its log file and then crashes.

Which driver(s) did you test this with?

I'm wondering if we could just add the force-enable code down in the 
util/format code and let it percolate up to the state tracker.  I 
haven't looked at this in detail yet.

-Brian