On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 00:02 -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>
> 2) Don't do NPOT in the pipe, but do it in the state tracker instead,
> as needed. Write up the appropriate fallbacks, and then let ARB_npot
> be advertised by the state tracker regardless of whether PIPE_CAP_NPOT
> is set. Lots of typing, though. Lots and lots of typing.
>
> 3) Same as above, but put all the fallbacks in the pipe instead of the
> state tracker. I am *really* not fond of this, since PIPE_CAP was not
> intended for lies, but it was mentioned in IRC, so I gotta mention it
> here.
These two seem like the most reasonable options. I'm leaning towards 3),
mostly for these reasons:
* It's a limitation of out-of-production hardware, so the onus
should be on the driver[0].
* 2) would require the same workarounds in more state trackers,
e.g. Xorg.
[0] That said, it may make sense to implement it as a utility module.
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