[Pkg-fglrx-devel] including both GL/gl.h and cogl/cogl.h fails on armel and armhf

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 01.01.2012 12:18, schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> Hi, and happy new year to all.
> 
> We’re currently discussing of the opportunity to switch cogl/clutter to
> use GLES instead of GL. However the case of nvidia & fglrx arose.
> 
> Le samedi 31 décembre 2011 à 14:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit : 
>> Le samedi 31 décembre 2011 à 14:16 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : 
>>> The other option, which might make everyone happy, is to just switch to
>>> GLES on all platforms.  Needs a lot of testing to make sure the desktop
>>> doesn't break horribly, but at least it won't have stupid special cases.
>>
>> Since cogl and clutter don’t use advanced GL functions at all, this is
>> the most reasonable choice and should probably be a long-term goal.
>>
>> However, DRI drivers support GLES, but at the moment this is not the
>> case of proprietary nvidia and fglrx drivers on x86, which only provide
>> GL. Breaking proprietary drivers on x86 to make proprietary drivers work
>> on arm doesn’t sound like a great plan.

I support it. Maybe it would be possible to switch clutter only on arm
to GLES or providing GL and GLES variants?

> 
> Do you know whether nVidia and AMD have any plans about releasing GLES
> drivers on their x86 platforms? This would help making a correct
> decision.

I am not 100% sure for fglrx, but there is GLES support and I don't know
how good it is.
Does this help?

root at gnu:~# grep -i gle /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    20.246] (II) LoadModule: "glesx"
[    20.246] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/glesx.so
[    20.439] (II) Module glesx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    20.440] (II) Loading extension GLESX
[    20.440] (II) fglrx(0): GLESX enableFlags = 528
[    20.447] (II) fglrx(0): GLESX is enabled
[    20.486] [-     XMM_GLX] [I ]glesxXvInit Configureable
RGBOutputColorRange


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