I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but WooHoo! We've been waiting
for this to go away for years now. While we still probably need to keep
some workaround code around for a bit since various "system" versions won't
have it for a while, we can finally start reliably depending on floating
poin
Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick
I'd also be in favor of a patch for stable that just removes
docs/patents.txt and the references to it by the build system. Since we
don't like to enable new features in stable, the flag would need to stay.
On 06/16/2018 05:00 PM, Timothy Arceri wrote:
> ARB_texture_fl
Yay! This option has had no effect on i965 for years, but I'm very
glad to see it gone all together.
Reviewed-by: Matt Turner
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ARB_texture_float references US Patent #6,650,327 [1] which has a filing date
of June 16 1998.
According to [2], patents filed after 1995 expire 20 years from the filing
date, giving an expiration of June 17 2018.
[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US6650327
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term
