Marek Olšák <mar...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:39 PM Mathias Fröhlich <mathias.froehl...@gmx.net> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tuesday, 23 April 2019 22:23:45 CEST Marek Olšák wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:05 PM Mathias Fröhlich < >> mathias.froehl...@gmx.net> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Hi Marek, >> > > >> > > On Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:22:15 CEST Marek Olšák wrote: >> > > > I'd like to remove swrast from devices. It doesn't work >> (eglInitialize >> > > > fails) and I don't think I like swrast there. Any objections? >> > > >> > > Yes, how do you guarantee that at least one device can be returned >> > > in any case? Even if no drm device is found? >> > > The egl device query extension guarantees that there is at least one >> > > device available. >> > > Beside that swrast may make sense for itself, that is the reason >> > > the swrast device is there. >> > > >> > >> > If no device can be returned, the extension won't be exposed. >> Yes, I was triggering this solution back in the days. There was (is?) no >> infrastructure to enable >> or disable an egl extension just past initialization or at runtime. >> Finally Emil took the route to add swrast. >> >> The longer I saw the swrast device the better It appeared to me. >> ... from the users point of view. >> >> > OR >> > If there is at least 1 drm device, swrast won't be in the list. >> > >> > From my perspective, radeonsi is always in the list and I wouldn't like >> > swrast to be in the list if radeonsi is in the list. >> >> I see - at least I think. But really the swrast device is good as is. I >> see plenty use cases for that. >> Having that only present when there is no hardware device makes it less >> useful. >> > > How is swrast good? How is swrast useful if you have a supported GPU?
EGL has the possibility of finally displacing OSMesa if we can expose swrast devices. People doing regression testing of higher-level software stacks (xserver, servo, etc.) need a consistent rasterizer they can use regardless of the hardware a developer might happen to have on their desktop.
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