[Mesa-dev] [RFC] GLX_MESA_query_renderer

[Henri Verbeet]

On 12 March 2013 17:46, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> Right... the extension also adds an attribute that can only be used with
> glXCreateContextAttribsARB.
>
Yeah, all I was saying is that it probably wouldn't be too hard to
word things along the lines of "If glXCreateContextAttribsARB() isn't
available GLX_RENDERER_ID_MESA goes away, and only one renderer is
available / visible.". Perhaps it's not worth it though.

> My thinking was that it will be very rare for multiple renderers to support
> the same GL versions and different extension strings... at least in a way
> that would cause apps to make different context creation decisions.
>
I guess that makes sense in the very coarse "I need at least GL3" way.

> Part of the thinking is that it would force regularity in how the version is
> advertised.  Otherwise everyone will have a different kind of string, and
> the currently annoying situation of parsing implementation dependent strings
> continues.
>
> Maybe GLX_RENDERER_VERSION_MESA should also be allowed with
> glXQueryRendererStringMESA?
>
Yeah, I think that makes sense.

> I also based this on ISV feedback.  Some just wanted to know what the
> hardware was, and others wanted to know that and who made the driver.  I was
> really trying to get away from "just parse this random string" for as much
> of the API as possible.  It seems like this should only make things easier
> for apps... should.
>
In theory you could add a GL vendor ID similar to the PCI vendor ID,
but then you'd have to allocate those globally, which would probably
be annoying. So, yeah.