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authorJosé Fonseca <[email protected]>2010-09-13 11:14:54 +0100
committerJosé Fonseca <[email protected]>2010-09-13 11:33:44 +0100
commit91a93257615390f75320c27645167d08b82b46b9 (patch)
treed326974a4570a3df4338bc0c35e6d2d831065f90 /src/gallium/docs
parent61c2861b4effed6b5e50e4d4089ede9768842b2b (diff)
gallium: Change the resource_copy_region semantics to allow copies between different yet compatible formats
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@@ -263,9 +263,11 @@ apart from any 3D state in the context. Blitting functionality may be
moved to a separate abstraction at some point in the future.
``resource_copy_region`` blits a region of a subresource of a resource to a
-region of another subresource of a resource, provided that both resources have the
-same format. The source and destination may be the same resource, but overlapping
-blits are not permitted.
+region of another subresource of a resource, provided that both resources have
+the same format, or compatible formats, i.e., formats for which copying the
+bytes from the source resource unmodified to the destination resource will
+achieve the same effect of a textured quad blitter. The source and destination
+may be the same resource, but overlapping blits are not permitted.
``resource_resolve`` resolves a multisampled resource into a non-multisampled
one. Formats and dimensions must match. This function must be present if a driver