[Mesa-dev] Can't get OpenGL 3.x inside VMware Workstation 12 (Ubuntu guest)

[Brian Paul]

On 11/11/2015 09:58 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
>>> I think there is a hunk missing about --enable-texture-float for
>>> ARB_texture_float (and ultimately GL 3.0).
>>
>>
>> N/A; that option defines the TEXTURE_FLOAT_ENABLED symbol which is only
>> tested in _mesa_enable_sw_extensions().
>
> boolean
> util_format_is_supported(enum pipe_format format, unsigned bind)
> {
>     if (util_format_is_s3tc(format) && !util_format_s3tc_enabled) {
>        return FALSE;
>     }
>
> #ifndef TEXTURE_FLOAT_ENABLED
>     if ((bind & PIPE_BIND_RENDER_TARGET) &&
>         format != PIPE_FORMAT_R9G9B9E5_FLOAT &&
>         format != PIPE_FORMAT_R11G11B10_FLOAT &&
>         util_format_is_float(format)) {
>        return FALSE;
>     }
> #endif
>
>     return TRUE;
> }
>

Oops, I git-grep'd only src/mesa/.  But in any case, we don't use 
util_format_is_supported() in the VMware driver and 
--enable-texture-float is not needed to get GL 3.3.

-Brian