[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] mesa: add EXT_debug_label support

[Timothy Arceri]

On 19/1/19 12:02 pm, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Timothy Arceri <tarceri at itsqueeze.com> writes:
> 
>> On 11/12/18 5:11 pm, Ian Romanick wrote:
>>> On 12/10/18 5:52 PM, Timothy Arceri wrote:
>>>> On 11/12/18 11:35 am, Ian Romanick wrote:
>>>>> It seems like someone already sent out patches to implement this, and we
>>>>> decided to not take it for some reason.  Maybe it was Rob?
>>>>
>>>> I discovered a thread from the beginning of 2017 titled "feature.txt &
>>>> EXT_debug_label extension". But couldn't find any implementation.
>>>>
>>>> There was a reply from yourself, but it seems incorrect to me:
>>>>
>>>> "I checked both extensions, and they're not "just" aliases.  The EXT adds
>>>> a single function with an enum to select the kind of object.  The KHR
>>>> adds a function per kind of object.  It would be easy enough to add, but
>>>> it seems more valuable to suggest the developer use the more broadly
>>>> supported extension."
>>>
>>> That's weird for a couple reasons.  One, that's not even the discussion
>>> that I was thinking of.  I'll check in the morning to see if I can find
>>> it.  Two, I was clearly full of it... I really don't see how I came that
>>> conclusion.  I don't even see any other related extensions that I could
>>> have been confusing either thing with.
>>
>> So do you think we should push this?
> 
> I don't see any piglit or CTS tests for this extension.
> 

Maybe I should have worded my reply above better. I'm happy to port the 
KHR_debug equivalent test. First I just want to know if people think we 
should go ahead and add support for this extension.