On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Remco remco47@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/18 Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com:
Right now, there's one thing bugging me: bug 14939. If Dan (or others) would like to implement a method of deferring S3TC texture decompression to the appropriately licensed GPU, assuming there are no legal issues with this, I'd be ecstatic. But I'm sure the D3D devs have better things to do. :)
The sad thing is that S3TC decompression is just plain trivial.
Maybe that could be solved in the same way as the patented Freetype code: disable it by default, but let commercial Wine packagers (and individual users obviously) have the choice of compiling it in. Something like ./configure --paid-for-patents.
Remco
Most drivers offer it these days and I believe also Mesa by default but you need to enable it using driconf or so.
Roderick