[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] mesa: Set the correct ctx->NewState bitfield for rasterizer discard.

[Eric Anholt]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:49 +0100, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Paul Berry <stereotype441 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (c) Do nothing, and rely on programmers to remember that RasterDiscard is an
> > exception to the usual correspondence between dirty bits and substructures
> > of gl_context.
> >
> > I'm really not comfortable with (c) because of the risk of future bugs.  I
> > suppose I could be talked into (b) if there's popular support for it, but
> > it's not my favourite, because as I said earlier, I think there are actually
> > a lot of good reasons to think of rasterizer discard as related to transform
> > feedback.  My preference is to do (a).
> 
> (d) Rework the _NEW_* flags such that they roughly match hardware
> state groups, not OpenGL state groups. Direct3D 11 and Gallium are two
> examples of how it could be done.

The problem is that everyone disagrees on what "hardware state group" a
piece of state is in.  On i965, rasterizer discard is really in the
transform feedback state -- the SOL (transform feedback) unit on gen7,
and the GS on gen6.
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