[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] intel: add ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt extension support.

Brian Paul brianp at vmware.com
Mon Sep 17 08:25:53 PDT 2012


On 09/17/2012 09:09 AM, Andreas Boll wrote:
> 2012/9/4 Brian Paul<brianp at vmware.com>:

>> Most of the patch is 'FEATURE_x' changes.  I've been tempted to rip out all
>> that stuff.
>>
>> The original idea was to make it easy for people to build smaller Mesa
>> subsets (and the ES subset) by running the code through the preprocessor
>> with all the FEATURE_x flags set on/off as needed.  In the past some people
>> were really concerned about code size for static analysis and to minimize
>> binary sizes.  I haven't heard any concerns about that in a long time.  If
>> someone's really determined to make a tighter subset, they'd have to go
>> above and beyond turning off FEATURE_x flags anyway.
>>
>> And now, we're building one library that supports runtime selection of full
>> OpenGL profiles, core profiles and ES profiles.  The FEATURE stuff doesn't
>> add any value for that and seems more trouble than it's worth.
>>
>> Any other opinions?
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>
> Does this mean that docs/subset.html and docs/subset-A.html are obsolete now and
> could be removed?

Sure.  Feel free to submit a patch for that.

-Brian


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