[Mesa-dev] Another Take on the S3TC issue

Patrick Baggett baggett.patrick at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 14:20:02 PDT 2013


Erm... I'm wondering... why does the S3TC issue come up every few
> months out of it's grave and haunt the list (and your nerves) ?
>
>
I think it is because the issue looks deceptively simple. Hardware is
hardware, right? ASICs do the decompression, not software. Surely blindly
copying bits from one device to another *can't* be patent infringement.
Surely, right? :\

Patrick
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