Eric Engestrom <[email protected]> writes: > On Wednesday, 2017-11-22 12:28:17 -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: >> Jordan Justen <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > On 2017-11-22 09:59:34, Eric Engestrom wrote: >> >> A recent thread [1] made me check our local specs to see which ones were >> >> upstream. This series removes the ones that are identical upstream >> >> (modulo "TBD" extension numbers in some cases). >> > >> > While I don't have too strong of an opinion on it, I think we should >> > keep a copy of Mesa specs that are in the upstream registry. >> > >> > I think it makes sense to send a patch to mesa-dev for new Mesa specs >> > or changes to Mesa specs. Having a copy in docs/specs works well for >> > that. >> >> The downside is that that process means that we'll inevitably keep stale >> or divergent copies in Mesa, when the canonical location for GL specs is >> Khronos. We do have a reasonable process for modifying Khronos's specs >> now, which we didn't before. > > Exactly, our local copies are not the authority, Khronos is. > > Changes to specs should be sent to Khronos, on the relevant repo, by > creating a pull request like I've now done for the specs I mentioned > in the cover letter: > https://github.com/KhronosGroup/EGL-Registry/pull/36 > https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Registry/pull/132 > https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Registry/pull/133 > https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Registry/pull/134 > https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Registry/pull/135 > https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Registry/pull/136 > https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Registry/pull/137 > >> >> I think we should get all our specs out and into the Khronos. > > Ack; should I let the specs authors do this themselves, or push them for > them?
If you have the time and energy to upstream them, I think that would be quite welcome. I'm sure a lot of these are basically forgotten and people's original motivation for the extensions has faded away.
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