[OE-core] [PATCH] mesa: potentially enable texture float for gallium

[Jussi Kukkonen]

On 30 May 2017 at 19:19, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 12:00 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Richard Purdie
> > <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Maybe this would be a better way forward? Enable it, always, in
> > > > ./configure,
> > > > add the patch to check for it in the code itself, then you can
> > > > build
> > > > for all
> > > > the gallium targets (including swrast) and know that the patented
> > > > code will
> > > > only kick in where it's supported in hardware (and thus patent-
> > > > safe)?
> > > That sounds like exactly what we need to do!
> > Okay. The only caveat being, if someone actually *wanted* to enable
> > float for swrast, this would prevent them from going down that path.
> >
> > ajax on #dri-devel pointed out that some piglit tests go from pass to
> > fail instead of being skipped as a result of the above patch since
> > the
> > piglit tests are done with swrast and run very poorly without float
> > enabled.
>
> If someone really wants to enable it, they can drop the patch. I'm open
> to feedback from others like Ross/Jussi but IMO I think we can accept
> the degraded piglit results for swrast...

Sounds like a completely reasonable compromise to me.

Jussi
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