[Mesa-stable] [PATCH 1/3] st/vdpau: don't return a device if the screen doesn't support NPOT

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Christian König
<deathsimple at vodafone.de> wrote:
> Am 18.01.2014 11:34, schrieb Ilia Mirkin:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Christian König
>> <deathsimple at vodafone.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 18.01.2014 05:58, schrieb Ilia Mirkin:
>>>
>>>> NV3x cards don't support NPOT textures. Technically this restriction
>>>> could be worked around, but since it also doesn't expose any video
>>>> decoding hw, just turn it off entirely.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
>>>> Cc: 10.0 <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Actually we had a similar problem for early r300/r600 cards and because
>>> of
>>> this there is an extra PIPE_VIDEO_CAP_NPOT_TEXTURES.
>>>
>>> Wanting to remove that for quite a while, but if you return the correct
>>> value when this is queried even NPOT cards should work quite fine with
>>> the
>>> presentation part of VDPAU.
>>
>> There isn't a single reference to NPOT in VDPAU that I could find. Are
>> you thinking of the XvMC state tracker? That one does appear to have
>> support for the NPOT stuff. However the e.g. output surfaces being
>> created aren't video surfaces, they're regular surfaces, so I think
>> I'm checking the right PIPE_CAP. (I guess I should check both, but
>> that's really overkill.)
>
>
> Ah, got it. You don't support NPOT textures at all and not only for the
> video buffers. Yeah, then it would be a bit complicated to get VDPAU
> working.

Actually for video buffers, we do support them :) Lot of good that
does us though, since we can't actually display them. NV3x has a HW
overlay though, I think the idea was to use that for displaying
videos. NV4x lost the HW overlay, but gained NPOT texture support.

>
> Then the patch is: Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>
>
>>> Christian.
>>>
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>    src/gallium/state_trackers/vdpau/device.c | 5 +++++
>>>>    1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/src/gallium/state_trackers/vdpau/device.c
>>>> b/src/gallium/state_trackers/vdpau/device.c
>>>> index fb9c68c..36ac11a 100644
>>>> --- a/src/gallium/state_trackers/vdpau/device.c
>>>> +++ b/src/gallium/state_trackers/vdpau/device.c
>>>> @@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ vdp_imp_device_create_x11(Display *display, int
>>>> screen,
>>>> VdpDevice *device,
>>>>          goto no_context;
>>>>       }
>>>>    +   if (!pscreen->get_param(pscreen, PIPE_CAP_NPOT_TEXTURES)) {
>>>> +      ret = VDP_STATUS_NO_IMPLEMENTATION;
>>>> +      goto no_context;
>>>> +   }
>>>> +
>>>>       *device = vlAddDataHTAB(dev);
>>>>       if (*device == 0) {
>>>>          ret = VDP_STATUS_ERROR;
>>>
>>>
>