[Mesa-dev] Should we fix Unigine apps?

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 16:33 -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The only way to make it work seems to be to relax some requirements
> of the GL spec and extensions (i.e. being non-compliant and
> non-portable in theory, but actually being very portable in practice).
> There are probably more ways to go about it. The patch below fixes
> softpipe and r600g. I think we should discuss this and come up with
> some solution, otherwise Unigine will be broken forever.
> 
> Clearly it's not within our control, but couldn't we tell Unigine's
> developers about this and see if they'll fix it?

There's also https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45238

According to a Phoronix reader[0] the ARB_draw_instanced has been
mentioned to them, without response. I guess an e-mail from @intel.com
or something similar would carry more weight...

0.
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?68411-Unigine-OilRush-Officially-Ships-Today-For-Linux&p=248223#post248223


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