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

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

Ian D Romanick 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.
> 
> 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?

We're not doing a software implementation of texture compression.  It would
be impractical.

-Brian