[Mesa-dev] Merge floating to master

[Lucas Stach]

I'm referring to the branch Marek mentioned when he announced the
implementation of certain floating-point formats.

You can find this branch here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/mesa/log/?h=floating2

-- Lucas

Am Sonntag, den 06.03.2011, 10:09 -0800 schrieb Jose Fonseca:
> Lucas,
> 
> First things first: what branch are you referring to exactly? The floating branch doesn't match your description -- it hasn't been updated my Marek or anybody else in a long time.
> 
> Jose
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: mesa-dev-bounces+jfonseca=vmware.com at lists.freedesktop.org [mesa-dev-bounces+jfonseca=vmware.com at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Lucas Stach [dev at lynxeye.de]
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 13:13
> To: Mesa Devel List
> Subject: Re: [Mesa-dev] Merge floating to master
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 02.03.2011, 08:22 +0100 schrieb Lucas Stach:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I want to bring up a an issue discussed some time ago. The support for
> > floating point textures and rendertargets currently lives in a branch
> > maintained by Marek Olšák. It's nice to see Marek rebases this branch
> > from time to time, to bring it up to date, but I don't think this should
> > be a permanent state.
> >
> > We need to discuss how we want to deal with patented features. I doubt
> > floating point support will be the last patented feature in the OpenGL
> > evolution.
> >
> > I think the best way to go is to merge floating to master but only
> > expose the extensions in question if the user specifies something like
> > --enable-patented at compile time. From a lawyers sight it shouldn't
> > make a difference since currently the code for patented features like
> > s3tc and floating point support is laying around on the same public git
> > servers as mesa.
> >
> > Merging this code into master should make it easier to maintain and I
> > see no legal problem if we let it up to the user whether to use this
> > code or compile his mesa without any patented features.
> >
> > --Lucas
> 
> This matter won't go away if we ignore it. We will never get full OpenGL
> 3.0+ compliance if we don't merge in the floating branch.
> 
> Attached you will find a patch against Marek's floating branch to hide
> the patented extensions behind a configure switch. Please ACK if you
> think we could merge in floating or give some opinion why you think we
> couldn't merge.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Lucas
>