[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] spirv: Work around the Doom shader bug

[Grazvydas Ignotas]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> Doom shipped with a broken version of GLSLang which handles samplers as
> function arguments in a way that isn't spec-compliant.  In particular,
> it creates a temporary local sampler variable and copies the sampler
> into it.  While Dave has had a hack patch out for a while that gets it
> working, we've never landed it because we've been hoping that a game
> update would come out with fixed shaders.  Unfortunately, no game update
> appears on to be on the horizon and I've found this issue in yet another
> application so I think we're stuck working around it.  Hopefully, we can
> delete this code one day.
>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>

Yes please, would be one less patch to carry.
I'd even vote for it to go to stable.

Tested-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas at gmail.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99467