Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [RFC] gallium-vertexelementcso branch merge

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

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:02 -0800, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this branch turns vertex element into a cso, so instead of
> set_vertex_elements there's now the triad of
> create/bind/delete_vertex_elements_state. I have converted all the
> drivers except nouveau (I didn't do it because Christoph Bumiller
> already did nv50, but I can give the rest of them a shot), though that
> doesn't necessarily mean they are optimized for it (the idea is of
> course to precalculate state on create, not just copy the pipe structs
> and do everything on bind) - only i965g really does something close to
> it (though still emits the state always). Drivers doing both hw vertex
> shaders and using draw in some circumstances of course will have to
> store both representations on create.
> Also note that util_draw_vertex_buffer semantics have changed a bit
> (caller needs to set vertex element state, which is a bit odd).

Roland,

The branch looks good to me, happy to see it merged when you're ready to
go.

Keith