review of OpenGL blacklist work

[Michael Stahl]

On 05.06.2015 13:59, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> Markus Mohrhard wrote:
>> I have implemented something similar now in the feature/opengl-preparation
>> branch for windows as preparation for the glyphy work (which is expected to
>> uncover many driver bugs). I'd appreciated if someone would have a look at
>> it and comment on the general idea (do we want to use that concept, is
>> there something that I missed, ...).
>>
> Looks good in general, just of course the devil is in the details -
> 
> Ideally, one would either have that within the established libreoffice
> xml configuration system (such that system integrators can override
> it, lock it down partially, install config-only extensions that tweak
> it etc etc) - or have an optional config layer that overrides whatever
> special downloaded blacklist there is. See
> canvas/source/directx/dx_config.cxx for an existing solution.

iirc the OpenCL stuff also has some sort of blacklist nowadays, wonder
if all of these should use the same sort of mechanism - that would make
it easier to admin.