Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Remove color index rendering?

[Ian R. <id...@fr...>]

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Patrice Mandin wrote:
> Le Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:16:32 -0800
> Ian Romanick <id...@fr...> a écrit:
> 
>> While we're on the topic of removing dead weight, can we remove support
>> for color index rendering?  None of the hardware drivers support color
>> index rendering, and color index rendering is deprecated in OpenGL 3.0
>> (and removed in 3.1).
>>
>> Can it please die in a fire?
> 
> Well, I think it could be done for Gallium backends. Nvidia hw supports
> color indexed textures from nv04 (TNT) to nv30 (Geforce FX). It was
> removed since nv40.
> 
> Do you want it to be removed in all hardware backends (i.e. also dri
> ones) ?

I'm talking about rendering *to* a color index target.  As far as I'm
aware, none of the hardware drivers have ever supported this.  Color
index textures are an orthogonal issue, and they can stay.

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