From: Leif D. <lde...@re...> - 2003-03-09 02:34:07
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Brian Paul wrote: [snip] > > GL_ARB_multisample - R200, R100, mga (What's necessary for a driver to > > support this?) > > I wouldn't advertise support for GL_ARB_multisample until it really works. > The OpenGL spec allows one to support the entrypoints without really > implementing the feature (sort of like texture compression). > > It's not trivial to implement and I'm not sure we even have the technical > information needed for doing it with the ATI chips. OK. So it sounds like this should be #ifdef'ed out in the radeon, r200 and mga drivers. [snip] > > There are a couple of other minor changes I had made to the version of the > > table on the DRI site that aren't reflected in the dynamic version. The > > attached version has these edits and those above (at least the ones I was > > sure about). > > > > BTW, I changed the PHP tags from '<?' to '<?php' and '<?=' to '<? echo', > > since the short versions didn't work when testing on my local system with > > PHP 4.1.2, and the PHP docs indicate the short versions are deprecated > > since they don't work well with XHTML. > > > > Some other enhancements I thought of that could be made: > > - show only the driver notes for the currently selected driver > > - have extensions default to "no" unless they are specified for a > > particular driver. That would make editing/adding extensions easier. > > > Feel free to incorporate your changes and make the page "live". I don't want > to be the sole gatekeeper for this info/webpage. > > At the top where it says "Select drivers to view" you might point out that one > can use shift-click to select multiple entries. > > Finally, a notice that this table reflects the latest code in CVS, and not > necesarily the drivers in XFree86 4.3 or RH8, etc., might be wise. > > -Brian OK, I've added the disclaimer and the note about selecting multiple drivers. I also implemented my suggestion about only showing the appropriate driver notes when a subset is selected (I'm a PHP newb, but it seems to work. :) ). I've also added back the anchor links to the driver notes on the chip names at the top of the table. I commented out the line that prints the ARB_multisample line for now. The dynamic page is now live with these changes. I changed the link on the status page to the new phtml page. The original flat HTML file is still in /doc as dri_driver_features.html.orig -- Leif Delgass http://www.retinalburn.net |