[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 08/10] gallium: introduce get_shader_param (ALL DRIVERS CHANGED)

[José Fonseca]

FWIW, I think this is a worthwhile interface cleanup. Your commit
comment says it all.

I did think of this when introducing the current shader caps enums, but
informal feedback I got was that it was better to stick with the current
get_param system. Now that the number of shader types is growing perhaps
this becomes more appealing to everyone.

Jose

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 18:30 -0700, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> Currently each shader cap has FS and VS versions.
>
> However, we want a version of them for geometry, tessellation control,
> and tessellation evaluation shaders, and want to be able to easily
> query a given cap type for a given shader stage.
>
> Since having 5 duplicates of each shader cap is unmanageable, add
> a new get_shader_param function that takes both a shader cap from a
> new enum and a shader stage.
>
> Drivers with non-unified shaders will first switch on the shader
> and, within each case, switch on the cap.
>
> Drivers with unified shaders instead first check whether the shader
> is supported, and then switch on the cap.
>
> MAX_CONST_BUFFERS is now per-stage.
> The geometry shader cap is removed in favor of checking whether the
> limit of geometry shader instructions is greater than 0, which is also
> used for tessellation shaders.
>
> WARNING: all drivers changed and compiled but only nvfx tested