gallium/docs: beef up the docs related to color clamping

Reviewed-by: Marek Olšák <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/gallium/docs/source/cso/rasterizer.rst b/src/gallium/docs/source/cso/rasterizer.rst
index 150e6df88ae..f4e24f0b438 100644
--- a/src/gallium/docs/source/cso/rasterizer.rst
+++ b/src/gallium/docs/source/cso/rasterizer.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ OpenGL: glClampColor(GL_CLAMP_VERTEX_COLOR) in GL 3.0 or GL_ARB_color_buffer_flo
 
 D3D11: seems always disabled
 
+Note the PIPE_CAP_VERTEX_COLOR_CLAMPED query indicates whether or not the
+driver supports this control.  If it's not supported, the state tracker may
+have to insert extra clamping code.
+
+
 clamp_fragment_color
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
@@ -30,6 +35,10 @@ OpenGL: glClampColor(GL_CLAMP_FRAGMENT_COLOR) in GL 3.0 or ARB_color_buffer_floa
 
 D3D11: seems always disabled
 
+Note the PIPE_CAP_FRAGMENT_COLOR_CLAMPED query indicates whether or not the
+driver supports this control.  If it's not supported, the state tracker may
+have to insert extra clamping code.
+
 
 Shading
 -------
diff --git a/src/gallium/docs/source/screen.rst b/src/gallium/docs/source/screen.rst
index 2bddf1bbb3b..17adf4deb81 100644
--- a/src/gallium/docs/source/screen.rst
+++ b/src/gallium/docs/source/screen.rst
@@ -83,17 +83,23 @@ The integer capabilities:
 * ``PIPE_CAP_VERTEX_ELEMENT_INSTANCE_DIVISOR``: Whether the driver supports
   per-instance vertex attribs.
 * ``PIPE_CAP_FRAGMENT_COLOR_CLAMPED``: Whether fragment color clamping is
-  supported.
+  supported.  That is, is the pipe_rasterizer_state::clamp_fragment_color
+  flag supported by the driver?  If not, the state tracker will insert
+  clamping code into the fragment shaders when needed.
+
 * ``PIPE_CAP_MIXED_COLORBUFFER_FORMATS``: Whether mixed colorbuffer formats are
   supported, e.g. RGBA8 and RGBA32F as the first and second colorbuffer, resp.
 * ``PIPE_CAP_VERTEX_COLOR_UNCLAMPED``: Whether the driver is capable of
   outputting unclamped vertex colors from a vertex shader. If unsupported,
   the vertex colors are always clamped. This is the default for DX9 hardware.
 * ``PIPE_CAP_VERTEX_COLOR_CLAMPED``: Whether the driver is capable of
-  clamping vertex colors when they come out of a vertex shader. If unsupported,
+  clamping vertex colors when they come out of a vertex shader, as specified
+  by the pipe_rasterizer_state::clamp_vertex_color flag.  If unsupported,
   the vertex colors are never clamped. This is the default for DX10 hardware.
   If both clamped and unclamped CAPs are supported, the clamping can be
-  controlled through pipe_rasterizer_state.
+  controlled through pipe_rasterizer_state.  If the driver cannot do vertex
+  color clamping, the state tracker may insert clamping code into the vertex
+  shader.
 * ``PIPE_CAP_GLSL_FEATURE_LEVEL``: Whether the driver supports features
   equivalent to a specific GLSL version. E.g. for GLSL 1.3, report 130.
 * ``PIPE_CAP_QUADS_FOLLOW_PROVOKING_VERTEX_CONVENTION``: Whether quads adhere to