"A little bit of hope"? Really? Because we have so many experienced
OpenGL developers, that they won't mind - and have nothing better to do -
that write to extensions exposed by a single, inferior, graphics card
manufacturer?
Wow.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Bogdan Marinov <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Matthew Gates <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > relevant:
> >
> >
> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/02/the-costs-of-supporting-legacy-hardware/
> >
> > o_O
>
> Read the comments. Even if they remove OpenGL 1, stuff will still work
> on systems that don't support OpenGL 2. This doesn't apply to
> Stellarium.
>
>
> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/02/the-costs-of-supporting-legacy-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-46325
> "First of all: I did not present any plans to remove anything. Second
> of all: KWin will still be working on your system even iff we remove
> OpenGL 1.x code pathes."
>
> Also, a little bit of hope about Intel mobile chips:
>
> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/02/the-costs-of-supporting-legacy-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-46302
>
> "It’s true that the i915/945-class hardware doesn’t support OpenGL 2,
> but the driver actually does expose support for GLSL shaders via
> extensions. It’s limited, of course, but ought to be sufficient for
> what you need. The only reason it doesn’t advertise GL 2 is because
> the hardware can’t do occlusion queries. But I doubt you’re using
> those anyway.
>
> i915 also supports OpenGL ES 2.0 with GLSL, if that’s helpful."
>
> Bogdan
>
>
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