[Mesa-dev] Ivybridge support for ARB_transform_feedback2

[Ian Romanick]

On 10/17/2013 11:09 PM, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> Here's my implementation of ARB_transform_feedback2.  I believe it's
> complete; it passes all of our Piglit tests and a lot of Intel's
> oglconform tests.
> 
> This should work out of the box on Ivybridge and Baytrail.  It won't
> work on Haswell at the moment, due to restrictions on register writes
> (to be solved in a future kernel version).  Patch 9 will need to be
> replaced with something that detects whether or not we can write
> registers from userspace batchbuffers.
> 
> In the meantime, I figured I'd send out the rest for review.
> 
> Porting this back to Sandybridge is probably doable, but annoying.
> Sandybridge doesn't have the MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM command, so we'd have
> to map the buffers and use MI_LOAD_REGISTER_IMM.  Seems pretty gross.
> Plus, transform feedback is done very differently pre-Ivybridge.  I'm
> not sure it's worth it, seeing as it's a GL 4.0 feature.

I assume this is just to support glDrawTransformFeedback?

Can you add that information to http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/I965Todo/ ?

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