[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] drirc: add option to disable ARB_draw_indirect

[Ian Romanick]

On 12/05/2017 08:25 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> On 5 December 2017 at 12:54, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is a bit sad/annoying.  But with current GPU firmware (at least on
>>> a5xx) we can support both draw-indirect and base-instance.  But we can't
>>> support draw-indirect with a non-zero base-instance specified.  So add a
>>> driconf option to hide the extension from games that are known to use
>>> both.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> Tbh, I'm also not really sure what to do when/if we got updated firmware
>>> which handled draw-indirect with base-instance, since we'd need to make
>>> this option conditional on fw version.  For STK that probably isn't a
>>> big deal since it doesn't use draw-indirect in a particularly useful way
>>> (the indirect buffer is generated on CPU).
>>>
>> Couldn't freedreno just return 0 for PIPE_CAP_DRAW_INDIRECT (aka
>> disable the extension) as it detects buggy FW?
>> This is what radeons have been doing as they encounter iffy firmware or LLVM.
>>
>> AFAICT freedreno doesn't do GL 4.0 or GLES 3.1 so one should be safe.
> 
> Rob is this -><- close to ES 3.1, so that's not a great option.

And I don't suppose there's a way to get updated firmware?  i965 has
similar sorts of cases where higher versions are disabled due to missing
kernel features.

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