----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:18 AM, José Fonseca <jose.r.fons...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'd support such change. Be it through GL_GREMEDY_string_marker, or
> > ARB_debug_output's glDebugMessageInsertARB(DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY_ARB,
> > ...), or KHR_debug's glPushDebugGroup(). A Gallium interface change would
> > be
> > necessary to pass these annotations to the drivers. This discussion would
> > be
> > more appropriate in Mesa-dev mailing list though.
I looked at the relevant specs (KHR_debug, ARB_debug_output), and I believe the
most natural / standard-compliant way of implementing this would be to rely on
glDebugMessageInsertARB(GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY_ARB).
In particular:
- apitrace's glretrace should be extended with an option (--insert-markers)
that would annotated the GL command stream with calls like:
glDebugMessageInsertARB(
GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY, // We still filter out these messages.
GL_DEBUG_TYPE_OTHER, 123456,
GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_MEDIUM,
-1, "Call 123456");
but only where there is a bound countext and (probably only outside
glBegin/glEnd).
and it should call
glDebugMessageControlARB(GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY, GL_DONT_CARE,
GL_DONT_CARE, 0, NULL, GL_FALSE);
to prevent dumping its own messages.
- gallium interface should be extended with a new method
pipe_context::insert_marker(pipe_context *, const char *marker)
which would be called for at least GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY (and
potentially GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_APPLICATION), but only on debug builds.
This is for full GL. For GLES we could do the same via EXT_debug_marker.txt's
glInsertEventMarkerEXT.
>
> I could probably handle the gallium bits to let the driver intercept
> the messages.
I'd appreciate that. As I'm afraid I don't have the time to do it myself, and
it is probably better if this is done on a driver that actually cares about
this.
I'd just wait a couple more days before start executing to give opportunity for
others to voice any concerns/suggestions.
Jose
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