[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 2/2] mesa: enable ARB_gpu_shader5 in compat

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Benedikt Schemmer <ben at besd.de> wrote:
> so the gll is ok?
>
> my idea with the glc is that this particular extension would no longer be advertised as soon as the app
> request a context where the functionality is already part of it (ie OpenGL >= 4.0)

Why is this desirable? One could interpret that to mean that e.g.
"#version 150; #extension GL_ARB_gpu_shader5: enable" wouldn't work...
While legal, I doubt it'd go over well with applications.

> Do you think a minimum GLSL version could be added to this table (maybe replacing the year) so that
> GLSL version overriding has a similar effect?

The minimum GL version seems to do that just fine...

  -ilia