glamor core profile support
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net
Tue Jan 19 09:37:48 PST 2016
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Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This series implements support for glamor in ephyr/EGL/Xwayland
>> to use GL core profile when it can.
>>
>> This required 4 main changes:
>> a) stop using client ptrs everywhere, I found 3 places left,
>> gradient, picture and xv where we use these.
>> b) start using VAOs
>> c) use GL_RED instead of GL_ALPHA
>> d) stop using GL_QUADS.
>
> Won't this negatively affect performance on drivers which can do quads natively?
You've probably got instancing, though, and most of our high-vertex-rate
code will use that with triangle strips to reduce vertex attribute data
anyway (see glamor_text.c).
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