HOWTO implement an OpenGL extension for Mesa

[whizse]

That's what VMWare/TG, Nouveau, and Radeon people think. However Intel doesn't seem to be moving to Gallium anytime soon.

Yeah, I was thinking mostly about Radeon here.

[netkas]

Posting here again, all Hopes on Marek

a little patch to add card's model names to r600g

so now it displays card model in glxinfo for me

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI Radeon HD 4850
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

currently there is ~65 model names

http://mirror.netkas.org/r600g/r600g_names.diff

[agd5f]

Let not do that. Something like what the classic drivers or r300g do would be better.

[netkas]

Let not do that. Something like what the classic drivers or r300g do would be better.

care to explain why ?

[agd5f]

We really only need to expose the asic variant (rs780, rv620, rv730, etc.) the "full" names are just marketing names and tend to confuse users and cause bug reports. E.g., my "Radeon HD 4370 Ultra Extreme Edition Super++ is incorrectly reported as a Radeon HD 4550", etc.

[netkas]

We really only need to expose the asic variant (rs780, rv620, rv730, etc.) the "full" names are just marketing names and tend to confuse users and cause bug reports. E.g., my "Radeon HD 4370 Ultra Extreme Edition Super++ is incorrectly reported as a Radeon HD 4550", etc.

you are right, i thought about same.

[bridgman]

Part of the problem is that you will often find multiple names mapped to the same IDs.

This normally leads to a never-ending series of "fix the name" patches each "correcting the problem introduced by the previous patch"

[netkas]

but, can't you just ignore such "bug"-reports ?

[bridgman]

The issue is that if the naming is more detailed than the ID/name mapping will support the results are actually *worse* for most users

[netkas]

The issue is that if the naming is more detailed than the ID/name mapping will support the results are actually *worse* for most users

Ok, but, what about this way: map names of cards which is 100% known to have some device-id and no other name use this dev-id.

like 4850 - 9442
4870 - 9440
4890 - 9460/9462
also 4850x2, 4870x2, 4770, 5770, 5750, 5870, 5850, 5970, 2600xt, 2600pro, 2900gt, 3870

and use r600c like method for rest of cards