Mesa before version 8.0.2 has a slow read pixels path that gets used
with the Intel driver where it converts all of the pixels into a
floating point representation and back even if the data is being read
into exactly the same format. There is however a faster path using the
blitter when reading into a PBO with BGRA format. It works out faster
to read into a PBO and then memcpy back out into the application's
buffer even though it adds an extra memcpy. This patch adds a
workaround in cogl_framebuffer_read_pixels_into_bitmap when it detects
this situation. In that case it will create a temporary CoglBitmap
using cogl_bitmap_new_with_size, read into it and then memcpy the data
back out.
The main impetus for this patch is that Gnome Shell has implemented
this workaround directly using GL calls but it seems like the kind of
thing that would sit better at the Cogl layer.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
This adds a CoglGpuInfo struct to the CoglContext which contains some
enums describing the GL driver in use. This currently includes the
driver package (ie, is it Mesa) the version number of the package and
the vendor of the GPU (ie, is it by Intel). There is also a bitmask
which will contain the workarounds that we should do for that
particular driver configuration. The struct is initialised on context
creation by using a series of string comparisons on the strings
returned from glGetString.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
