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

[Tapani Pälli]

On 03/07/2018 04:29 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 7 March 2018 at 06:02, Tapani Pälli <tapani.palli at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/07/2018 12:36 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Tapani Pälli <tapani.palli at intel.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi;
>>>>
>>>> On 03/02/2018 03:25 PM, Andres Gomez wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> No. 3.2COMPAT will set both core and compat version limits to 3.2.
>>>
>>
>> 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.

Right, that makes sense. Thanks Emil!

> 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
> 

// Tapani