[Mesa-dev] how "client glx extensions" and "GLX extensions" are determined (and how best to limit them)

[Axel Davy]

On 01/06/2014 20:49, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote :
> I'm trying to take a stab at adding core profile support to XQuartz.  As a first step, I'm trying to add GLX_ARB_create_context and GLX_ARB_create_context_profile.
>
> For now, I want to make sure that GLX_ARB_create_context and GLX_ARB_create_context_profile are only advertised as being available when in a testing mode (so as to not enable breakage by default while working on these changes).  To this end, I'm the following to applegl_create_screen:

>
> Unfortunately, it seems that GLX_ARB_create_context and GLX_ARB_create_context_profile are always advertised on current mesa.
It looks like __glXCalculateUsableExtensions is always called with 
"display_is_direct_capable = False" for GLX_USE_APPLEGL.

Thus the following applies:
" If the display is not capable of direct rendering, then the extension
     * is enabled if and only if the client-side library and the server
     * support it. "

This seems conformant to the spec:

"

Direct rendering is requested if <direct> is True, and indirect
     rendering if <direct> is False. If <direct> is True, the
     implementation may nonetheless create an indirect rendering context
     if any of the following conditions hold:

       * The implementation does not support direct rendering.
       * <display> is not a local X server.
       * Implementation-dependent limits on the number of direct
         rendering contexts that can be supported simultaneously are
         exceeded.

"

In other words: you server advertises the extension and direct rendering 
is not supported. The extension must be advertised, and create an 
indirect context in all cases.

Your glxinfo says that direct rendering is supported. I don't know 
XQuartz, but perhaps __glXCalculateUsableExtensions should not get 
called anymore with "display_is_direct_capable = False" for 
GLX_USE_APPLEGL ?

Axel Davy
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