Re: [Mesa3d-dev] rasterize or rendering?

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

rt wrote:
> 
> > The drivers we have don't do this.  Instead they take a seperate approach of
> > overriding the whole render stage.  In the mesa-3-5 branch on dri cvs, the
> 
>         Is this the approach in 3.4?
> 

To a certain extent -- the 'fastpath' stuff in the dri drivers and in
Mesa/src/FX overrides the whole pipeline, and does clipping, etc in an
hardware-optimized fashion.  It doesn't attempt to make use of hardware strip
support as it's not appropriate for the DrawElements case that is being
accelerated.  The mga 'eltpath' uses hardware indexed vertices, which is
another way of reducing bus traffic.

Keith