Re: [Dri-devel] S3TC revisited.

[Nathan H. <na...@ma...>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:28:26PM -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> 
> I hate to beat a dead horse, but can anyone tell me what work would need
> to be done in order to get these textures to work with the DRI drivers?

Hire several lawyers and start legal proceedings.

It's pretty simple. If the application has shipped with compressed
textures and the chipset supports that format of compression, then
it'll work with Mesa (or can be easily made to work). 

If the application ships with normal textures, then the idea would
be for Mesa to convert the normal textures into compressed texture
on the fly, then upload compressed textures to the card.

The former is rare. The latter is illegal. Hurrah for patents.

 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Daryll Strauss wrote:
> 
> > If an application has compressed texture (they compressed them
> > themselves or compressed them offline) we can download the compressed
> > texture to the board. Unfortunetly, that's of little use since most
> > applications don't work that way.

-- 
The more I know about the WIN32 API the more I dislike it. It is complex and
for the most part poorly designed, inconsistent, and poorly documented.
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