[Mesa-dev] [RFC 2/2] glx: drop GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent support

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Apr 19 07:50:29 UTC 2017


On 19/04/17 04:45 PM, Timothy Arceri wrote:
> This extension is not supported by GLVND, also as far
> as I can tell this extension requires us to do extra
> locking for objects that are not normaly shared across
> contexts, like vertex array and pipeline objects.
> 
> Glthread also won't play nice with this extension.
> 
> Finally it seem it is no longer used by gstreamer.

FWIW, cairo still has code to use this extension, but AFAIK the cairo GL
backend isn't really used in the wild.


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