Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Formalization of the Gallium shader semantics linkage model

[Keith W. <ke...@vm...>]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 03:55 -0700, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> Personally I think the simplest idea for now could be to have all
> drivers support 256 indices or, in the case of r600 and svga, the
> maximum value supported by the hardware, and expose that as a cap (as
> well as another cap for the number of different semantic values
> supported at once).
> The minimum guaranteed value is set to the lowest hardware constraint,
> which would be svga with 219 indices (assuming no bcolor is used).
> If some new constraints pop up, we just lower it and change SM3 state
> trackers to check for it and fallback otherwise. 

Luca,

Thanks for your patience and efforts in compiling this - I really
appreciate the effort you've put into this and the persistence to keep
coming back to it.

The patchset looks good to me at first reading, I'll dig in more deeply.

Keith