Bug 13133

Summary:	GLX is missing Render sub-requests
Product:	XCB	Reporter:	Peter Harris <pharris>
Component:	Protocol	Assignee:	Josh Triplett <josh>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	hto, jamey, jkolb
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Peter Harris 2007-11-07 11:04:00 UTC

GLX is missing Render sub-requests. This is critical for xcb-server, and would be nice for a hypothetical xscope or xmond based on XCB/proto.

At the very least, the TODO file should be updated:

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index add693c..dfd6a38 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ X DAMAGE
   DOUBLE-BUFFER
 X DPMS
   Extended-Visual-Information
-X GLX
+I GLX
   LBX
 X MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
 X MIT-SHM

Comment 1 Jamey Sharp 2007-11-07 16:54:59 UTC

We can add the Render and RenderLarge sub-encodings to the XML description of GLX without necessarily having them be used in the XCB C code generator. So this doesn't imply an ABI or API change, which is good.

I believe this is actually a special case of a known general problem. Requests like PolyText8 and RenderCompositeGlyphs8, if they were fully described in the XML, can't generate correct code with our current code generator--and that's partly because we weren't sure what C API to give them. Once the Python code generator lands, it should be easy to at least make the code generator ignore unrepresentable descriptions, and at best generate a more friendly C API from them than the current byte-array interface.

Assigning to Josh, though I'm sure he won't have time to work on this. Thomas and Jeremy seem more likely to make contributions here in the near future, so CC'ing them. :-)

Comment 2 Peter Harris 2009-03-29 12:10:24 UTC

As an update, I've started using the GLX/Render definitions from the XML file in Mesa. It's probably easiest for XCB to just point at the Mesa repository, since they're more vested in keeping that file up to date.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/mesa/glapi/gl_API.xml

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