[Mesa-dev] OpenGL ES only configuration (without "desktop" OpenGL support)

[Tom Gall]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Chad Versace
<chad.versace at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 09:44 PM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:54:57 -0700
>> Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Siarhei Siamashka
>>> <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>> But if upstream Mesa treats this configuration as unsupported, then I
>>>> also don't see it progressing anywhere in Gentoo. So could you please
>>>> re-consider this decision?
>>>
>>>
>>> As far as I'm aware, ES without Desktop GL is disallowed only because
>>> it was discovered to be broken
>>> which is because no one working on Mesa appears to test it.
>>
>>
>> I have not done any really serious testing. I'm just playing around [...]
>
>
>
>>> If you can test it (and provide patches when you notice that it's
>>> broken) I don't have a problem with allowing ES-only builds.
>
>
> I agree. If you can fix Mesa to support ES-only builds and do *serious*
> testing with Piglit and some real ES applications to prove that it works,
> then I'm not opposed to supporting that configuration.

If you're willing to give a go, I'm willing to spend some time on it.

-- 
Regards,
Tom

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