[Mesa-dev] [PATCH mesa 0/7] remove upstreamed specs

[Ian Romanick]

On 11/28/2017 03:55 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 28 November 2017 at 02:56, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>> On 11/23/2017 05:32 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> On 22 November 2017 at 17:59, Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at imgtec.com> wrote:
>>>> A recent thread [1] made me check our local specs to see which ones were
>>>> upstream. This series removes the ones that are identical upstream
>>>> (modulo "TBD" extension numbers in some cases).
>>>>
>>>> There are a few more specs left that are upstream, but have typo fixes
>>>> that I'm going to submit to Khronos, and I'll remove the local copies
>>>> once the fixes have been upstreamed:
>>> The idea sounds great, just some minor comments - mostly about
>>> potential deprecation.
>>>
>>>> - EGL_MESA_drm_image
>>> The extension, lacks information about error handling (et al) and is
>>> no longer used.
>>> There is even an extra bitmask in eglmesaext.h that's quite meh thing to do.
>>> Perhaps we should consider officially deprecating it as hinted earlier [1]
>>>
>>> [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-June/161575.html
>>>
>>>> - GLX_MESA_release_buffers
>>> Extension is implemented only for Xlib based libGL. The DRI codepath
>>> has a TODO for at least 7 years.
>>> Worth checking if anyone uses it and not just deprecate the extension?
>>>
>>>> Eric Engestrom (7):
>>>>   docs/specs: remove upstreamed spec EGL_MESA_platform_surfaceless
>>>>   docs/specs: remove upstreamed spec MESA_image_dma_buf_export
>>>>   docs/specs: remove upstreamed spec MESA_shader_integer_functions
>>>>   docs/specs: remove upstreamed spec EXT_shader_integer_mix
>>>
>>>>   docs/specs: remove upstreamed spec MESA_agp_offset
>>>>   docs/specs: remove upstreamed spec MESA_pixmap_colormap
>>>>   docs/specs: remove upstreamed spec MESA_set_3dfx_mode
>>> These three are also Xlib libGL only. Above idea applies.
>>
>> MESA_agp_offset wasn't Xlib, but it is long dead.  It was killed by
>> ARB_vertex_buffer_object.  MESA_set_3dfx_mode dead when we stopped
>> supporting the Glide (3dfx's proprietary, low-level graphics API) Mesa
>> driver.  Neither of these have been supported by any Mesa driver in
>> many, many years, and they will never come back from that grave.
>>
> Fully agree with the sentiment.
> 
> Trivial clarification:
> I did not mean the extensions are Xlib, but simply point that the Xlib
> based libGL(s) still advertise them.
> We could correct that of course ;-)

Oh man... add GLX_NV_vertex_array_range to the list.  There is some
seriously stinking garbage hanging around in there...

> -Emil