[Mesa-dev] 7 questions and proposals about changes in the Gallium interface

[Keith Whitwell]

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 20:47 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have several questions about Gallium. Some of them are about undocumented
> > stuff, others are just little things from the top of my head. Please
> > consider these as things I may do when time allows.
> >
> >
> > 1) Flush flags
> >
> > Which PIPE_FLUSH_* flag is used to flush the command stream? There doesn't
> > seem to be one and we need it for glFlush.
> >
> > What is PIPE_FLUSH_FRAME for? To my knowledge, Gallium doesn't know
> > "frames". What a driver should do when it gets that flag? The same for
> > PIPE_FLUSH_SWAPBUFFERS.
> 
> I thought that was used from the X.org state tracker but I could be wrong.

Hmm, this may be true, but drivers/svga doesn't look at this flag in any
significant way.

Keith