[Mesa-dev] EXT/ARB direct state access extensions

[Gustaw Smolarczyk]

Ok. It would be helpful to note the progress in the docs/GL3.txt file.

The overview of ARB_dsa summarizes the difference between it and the
EXT variant, so I understand the undesirability of implementing
EXT_dsa.

Gustaw

2014-11-16 12:07 GMT+01:00 Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>:
> On Saturday, November 15, 2014 10:42:47 PM Gustaw Smolarczyk wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to ask what is the status of DSA (direct state access)
>> extensions in mesa. If I understand correctly, there was a GSoC
>> project by Dylan Noblesmith and there currently is a dsa branch in
>> mesa repo, but it's not actively worked on at the moment. Is there any
>> particular reason for not mainlining this other than there being not
>> enough interest in it? Or was the code not ready for inclusion?
>>
>> Since the GL 4.5 includes the DSA extension, it would be nice to
>> support it in mesa. It also provides an easier way to use OpenGL and
>> could decrease API call count.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gustaw
>
> Laura Ekstrand is currently working on implementing ARB_direct_state_access.
> I suspect it'll be part of the 10.5 release.
>
> Generally, people didn't seem too interested in supporting the older
> EXT_direct_state_access extension, claiming it was a bit ill-defined, and were
> generally unhappy with all the legacy interactions.  Everybody's on board for
> the ARB version, but it looks a fair bit different than the older EXT one
> that's partially implemented on the "dsa" branch.
>
> --Ken