[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 8/9] softpipe: enable PIPE_CAP_COPY_IMAGE

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
> On 08/27/2015 06:01 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure you want to enable it in spite of the fact that it
>> doesn't handle swizzling (which you've slightly papered over by
>> switching some of the format orders around, but as I pointed out not
>> completely)?
>
>
> As I said before, I'd like to get as much of this committed as possible with
> the understanding that there's more work to do.  If you really feel that
> softpipe/llvmpipe should not have this feature, I guess I could drop it, but
> I'd rather not.

I won't object to it, softpipe/llvmpipe are "your" drivers, but AFAIK
we strive to have things fully working before exposing features. Bugs
obviously happen and we miss things, but outside of hw fail, I don't
think we've knowingly enabled things that we knew were lacking*.

  -ilia

* The only counterexample I'm aware of is "precise" handling in ARB_gpu_shader5.