[Mesa-dev] glxinfo updates?

[Brian Paul]

On 08/30/2012 08:08 AM, Ian Romanick wrote:
> 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,

What features of GL_ARB_compatibility are you missing?  Do you plan on 
supporting GL_ARB_compatibility someday?


> 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?

I think so.


> 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 think so.  I actually started hacking on this a while ago.  Would 
you be interested in a patch if I can find it?


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

Definitely.

-Brian