[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/9] gallium: add CAPs to support HW atomic counters. (v2)

[Dave Airlie]

On 4 November 2017 at 10:01, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if the "HW" prefix everywhere makes sense since gallium
> doesn't imply there is a hardware driver behind it, but I don't really
> care much.

Well it's more that the atomic's aren't normal ssbo atomics, and there is
dedicated hardware for them. Really a software backing by definition is
unlikely to have any specific atomic counter hardware, so I think the HW
one still stands.

Dave.