[Mesa-dev] glxinfo updates?

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Thu Aug 30 07:08:42 PDT 2012


It occurs to me that, even though the i965 driver can support OpenGL 3.1 
on some hardware, glxinfo will only (ever) say 3.0.  We don't support 
GL_ARB_compatibility, so 3.1 isn't backwards compatible with 3.0 or earlier.

Should we update glxinfo to try creating a 3.1 context if possible?  So 
far, all future versions of OpenGL are backwards compatible with 3.1. 
Failing that, should it try 3.2 core, then 3.1, then 1.0 (current behavior)?

I already anticipate the bug reports of people wondering where 3.1 is 
when they look at glxinfo output...


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