Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Who is working on Texture Compression (other than me?)

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Bill White wrote:
> 
> Who is working on texture compression in Mesa?  I have an implementation
> of the ARB extension (mostly done by Brian Paul) and an implementation of
> the GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1 extension.  These are in the
> tdfx-2-1-branch
> branch of the DRI tree.
> 
> If someone else is working on this, and depends on the implementation, please
> let me know.  For something I am working on, the driver interface needs to
> change.  In particular, there is a routine which calculates the specific
> texture compression format given a generic one.  For example, given
> GL_COMPRESSED_RGB_ARB, the routine might return GL_COMPRESSED_RGB_FXT1_3DFX.
> This routine needs to have more parameters to support some more compressed
> texture formats.
> 
> Please let me know if you are working in this area, and I can give you
> more details.  They are generally pretty harmless, and I think they are
> backward compatible, though I have not tested for this.

You and I are the only ones who've touched that code.  Go ahead and make
your changes.

-Brian