[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] nv50: limit the maximum number of samplers to 16

Ilia Mirkin imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jul 13 11:30:36 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2015 at 17:32, samuel.pitoiset <samuel.pitoiset at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 13/07/2015 18:08, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there some widely know issue with it ? mesa & envytools does not
>>> mention anything (based of a quick scan).
>>
>>
>> There is no know issue with NV50_3D_BIND_TSC2, but Ilia doesn't seem to want
>> to use it. :-)
>> That's why I followed his suggestion by reducing the max. number of samplers
>> to 16 like for nvc0.
>>
> Ack, thanks for the confirmation. Currently it reads like a warning
> sign "stay away from XXX" - so if you want to you can soften if a bit.

"stay away from BIND_TSC2" is right. It's very much not to be used for
regular applications from what I can tell.


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