[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] gallium/radeon: add an env variable to force a level of aniso filtering

[Ian Romanick]

On 04/12/2016 09:39 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>> On 04/12/2016 05:21 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>>>> radeon and r200 have a driconf option that is similar to this.  It sets
>>>> a default initial max anisotropy value.  Maybe that would be better?
>>>
>>> If driconf didn't copy /etc/drirc into ~/.drirc, it would indeed be
>>> better. This needs to be fixed in driconf before we can consider it
>>> usable. After that, we can move such options there.
>>
>> I'm not sure what that means.  You mean the driconf app?
> 
> Yes, the driconf app. It unconditionally copies all app workarounds
> into ~/.drirc and following Mesa updates can't remove them. If you
> don't run driconf, ~/.drirc won't be created and you'll always get
> updated app workarounds with newer Mesa.

That sounds awful... as a user, I'm pretty sure that would fill me with
rage.  It seems like the app should only operate on the user's ~/.drirc.
 Having an "import from /etc/drirc" button seems like the right answer.
 Forcing it on people is never right. :(

I've never even seen the app... where is it maintained?

> Marek