[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] dri_util: when overriding, always reset the core version

[Emil Velikov]

On 7 March 2018 at 06:02, Tapani Pälli <tapani.palli at intel.com> wrote:
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> On 03/07/2018 12:36 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Tapani Pälli <tapani.palli at intel.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi;
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>>> On 03/02/2018 03:25 PM, Andres Gomez wrote:
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>>>> This way we won't fail when validating just because we may have a non
>>>> overriden core version that is lower than the requested one, even when
>>>> the compat version is high enough.
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>>> Do I understand correctly that this happens because when version asked is
>>> >
>>> 3.2 then we always do core context, even when overriding to compat
>>> profile?
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>> No. 3.2COMPAT will set both core and compat version limits to 3.2.
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> I see, I was trying to understand why core version matters when using compat
> profile but I'm not sure I get it, it probably should not matter.
>
In some cases you'd get a program using third party middle-ware.
For many instances of those one component is using a core while the
other a compat profile.

Admittedly the whole extension overriding is a bit of a band-aid
(hack) and it's not worth spending much too time on it ;-)

-Emil