[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] gallium: Add new PIPE_CAP_MULTISAMPLED_RENDER_TO_TEXTURE

[Marek Olšák]

GCN calls it overrasterization multisampling, but it's really only useful
for polygon smoothing, because there is no temporary buffer.

Marek

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:35 PM Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:25 PM Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Suggestions:
> > - PIPE_CAP_TILED_BASED_MSAA_OVERSAMPLING
> > - pipe_surface::tile_based_oversample_count
> >
> > I'm assuming this feature isn't possible without tile-based rendering.
>
> I guess technically an IMR could do it, with an internal temporary
> buffer not visible to the state-tracker.  (Not sure I could come up
> with a reason *why* you'd want to do that, but...)
>
> BR,
> -R
>
> >
> > Marek
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 1:23 PM Kristian Høgsberg <hoegsberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:17 AM Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 1:13 PM Kristian Høgsberg <
> hoegsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:48 PM Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I think the name PIPE_CAP_MULTISAMPLED_RENDER_TO_TEXTURE is
> slightly misleading, because it doesn't imply anything about the OpenGL ES
> behavior, which is that a texture is multisampled in the cache, but
> single-sampled in memory. This should be mentioned somewhere.
> >> >>
> >> >> Not sure exactly which change you're recommending, but in retrospect,
> >> >> I think it would be better to name the cap in term of how it changes
> >> >> the gallium API instead of the GLES extension it enables. How about
> >> >> PIPE_CAP_SURFACE_SAMPLE_COUNT, to indicate that it allows overriding
> >> >> sample counts in pipe_surface?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > That's an interesting idea, but how does it convey that multisampled
> surfaces are never multisampled in memory?
> >>
> >> How are you going to convey all that in a cap enum name? In general,
> >> the cap names are concise hints and not super descriptive - you have
> >> to go read the documentation to understand the semantics.
> >>
> >> Do you have a specific name you'd like to see or can we go with
> >> PIPE_CAP_SURFACE_SAMPLE_COUNT?
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Marek
> >
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