[Mesa-dev] glxinfo updates?

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> On 08/30/2012 02:33 PM, Brian Paul wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
>
> No.  There are several 3.1 features that interact poorly with some
> compatibility features (especially TexBOs and some legacy texture formats).
> We'd have to jump through hoops to make some of these features at all, and
> I'd much rather have the time spent optimizing the features we do support,
> finishing OpenGL ES 3.0, and working on OpenGL 3.2
>

I'm just wondering have you actually done a survey of apps that may or
may not require ARB_compatibility?

Since both major vendor drivers provide this, are you locking mesa out
of some known use cases?

Dave.