Intel Mesa To Force On S3TC, Floating-Point Textures

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Mesa To Force On S3TC, Floating-Point Textures

Two patches from Intel's Ian Romanick for their open-source Mesa DRI driver will now enable S3TC extensions always plus floating-point textures. These two features previously were not enabled by default out of patent fears...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIwOTg

[przemoli]

Can Radeon and Nouveau follow the suite? Anyone from Intel to comment on that?

[89c51]

Can Radeon and Nouveau follow the suite? Anyone from Intel to comment on that?

This. Marek??? Or any of the other devs??

[curaga]

Enabling floats for only Intel does point to directions, wink wink, nudge nudge.

[remm]

Pretty impressive commitment from Intel to their open driver ! (I assume being able to make this commit was quite expensive)

[F i L]

This is awesome news, thanks a lot Intel, we appreciate it!

[asdx]

Does this means that people can run games now without installing that S3TC library? What does it means exactly?

[phred14]

I wonder if the Intel legal department knows that they've done this. They've exposed the company here, as well as Mesa.

[agd5f]

That patch just removes the #ifdefs in the code. You still have to configure mesa with the appropriate configure option to actually enable the functionality.

[asdx]

I wonder if the Intel legal department knows that they've done this. They've exposed the company here, as well as Mesa.

Shut up coward.