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

[Ian D R. <id...@cs...>]

> 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.

Is this extension going to only be supported on 3dfx hardware or will there
be a software fallback?  It sure would be nice to make sure that one's code
works right with the FXT1 textures without having to go out and buy a Voodoo
4/5/6.  The same could also be done with S3TC format textures, I suppose.

If this is not work that is currently planned, could someone perhaps provide
some guidance for others that might want to try and tackle this?

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