Mesa Adds Vertex Program Extension
December 14th, 2001 by michaelBrian Paul, all around swell guy and Mesa project administrator, announced to the Mesa3D-dev list that NVIDIA has given him permission to produce a software-only implementation of the NVIDIA GL_NV_vertex_program extension.
The work has been in-progress for the last couple of months and is now able to execute simple vertex programs. NVIDIA licensed the right with a fairly informal “we are not liable, it must be correct, it must be executed in software” agreement. Brian mentioned in a later message that a later extension may allow hardware implementations.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Cool. I imagine this must be extremely hard to do in software, some type of emulator maybe? All I can say is wow, if he can do it.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
A nice move by nVIDIA to allow Brian Paul to add this to Mesa . From the Mesa-side of things I regard that as a “gee, another beast-project that just keeps going and going and…”
Just my 2-eurocents…
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Not only vendor extensions may not work on common OpenGL applications, OpenGL 2.0 proposal already includes a vertex shader language. Brian Paul should at least wait for actual OpenGL 2.0 drafts first.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
What does this really mean? Someone who is familiar with NVidia extensions please tell me how having one in software Mesa is even desirable.