Re: [Dri-devel] some mesa-newtree (r200) observations

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

Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> 1) display lists seem to work great. ugs-03 from SpecViewperf 7.1 now no 
> longer exhausts all memory (1GB!), memory consumption is now not even a 
> tenth to what it was before. Of course, everything is still rendered 
> black&white (except, and this is new, the very first frame, which is 
> fully colored), but that's a different topic...

Good to hear...

> 2) The number of texture units gets reported as 8, because hw driver 
> sets MaxTextureUnits, but Mesa looks at the minimum of 
> MaxTextureImageUnits and MaxTextureCoordUnits. This causes troubles with 
> all apps which actually try to use these units (such as ut2003, it will 
> still run, but will get lots of Mesa user errors and performance will be 
> horrible).

OK - this is a change in mesa which I hadn't taken account of in the drivers 
-- I'll fix it up.

> Don't know if the obvious fix (setting these values in the hw 
> drivers) is the right thing to do (and btw it would be really really 
> nice if it would be possible to set them to 4 or 6 instead of 2...).

This should be pretty easy to fix now - the template code will support upto 4 
pretty well and I'm working on a new approach which will not have any limitations.

> 3) Things like QuakeIII and nwn seem to run just as before. Lighting in 
> NWN (TCL path) has changed a bit, still wrong, but looks more like it 
> did half a year ago (I believe that's because the patches which fixed 
> Flightgear problems as Felix mentioned didn't make it in).

OK.

Keith