Re: [Dri-devel] DRI (Mesa) support for ARB_{fragment|vertex}_program extensions

[Brian P. <br...@tu...>]

Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
>=20
>> Hello!
>>
>> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/registry/ARB/fragment_program.t=
xt
>> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/registry/ARB/vertex_program.txt
>>
>> Now when ARB has approved extensions for both pixel- and vertex-shader=
s,
>> are there any problems supporting these in DRI/Mesa?
>>
>> At least r200 hardware supports these features..
>=20
>=20
> The problem that is most pressing is that ati doesn't want the=20
> programmability features exposed in opensource drivers (or at least=20
> didn't when we last talked about it).
>=20
> Otherwise, Mesa-4.1 (ie the Mesa CVS trunk) already has a software=20
> implementation of the vertex_program extension.

Before I go any further with fragmen/vertex program extensions I should
really try to find out what's going on with Microsoft's assertion of
IP/patents covering the technology.  A few months ago they were making
a lot of noise about this.

-Brian