[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 7/9] egl/wayland: assume EGL_WINDOW_BIT

[Chad Versace]

On Wed 06 May 2015, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 6 May 2015 at 07:25, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 May 2015 11:00:13 +1000
> > Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 2 May 2015 at 20:15, Axel Davy <axel.davy at ens.fr> wrote:
> >> > Only EGL_WINDOW_BIT is supported. Remove tests related.
> >>
> >> Is this there no plans to support pixmap/pbuffer/ or any of the other bits?
> >>
> >> Seems like a step in the wrong direction if we really should be supporting
> >> other things than WINDOW_BIT in the future.
> >
> > EGL Wayland by definition does not have pixmaps:
> > https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/EXT/EGL_EXT_platform_wayland.txt
> >
> > Pbuffers OTOH I suppose are possible.
> 
> Possible, yes. I _think_ PVR supports them, but pretty sure Mali
> doesn't. I'm entirely comfortable with not doing so either.

For what it's worth, Google removed EGL pixmaps from Android too; see
EGL_KHR_platform_android. gbm lacks pixmaps too.