From: Steve Satterfield (steve++at++nist.gov)
Date: 09/19/2005 09:51:13
Allan,
Does Performer 3.2.1 now include the 3.1 libraries for backward compatibility
as we discussed at SIGGRAPH?
Is there any more news about a port of Performer to Mac OSX?
In the recent announcement of Volumizer 2.9, I see the following statement:
"Kindly note that with the 2.9 release of Volumizer, we will no longer be
releasing new versions of the software on IRIX. It is recommended that IRIX
users and developers continue with the 2.8 or earlier releases. Kindly
note that with the 2.9 release of Volumizer, we will no longer be releasing
new versions of the software on IRIX. It is recommended that IRIX users and
developers continue with the 2.8 or earlier releases."
Is there any plans to drop IRIX support in Performer?
Thanks,
Steve
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Allan Schaffer wrote:
> Hello Performers,
>
> SGI is very pleased to announce, OpenGL Performer 3.2.1 is now released!
>
> The web downloads for 64-bit Linux, 32-bit Linux, IRIX, and Windows OS
> platforms are all available. Please visit the Performer web site:
>
> <http://www.sgi.com/software/performer/>
>
> The Demo Edition of Performer 3.2.1 is available as a free web
> download. An SGI Supportfolio membership is required to access the
> download site. If you don't already have an SGI Supportfolio account
> you can sign up for free.
>
> Here's some of what's new for Performer 3.2.1. Check it out:
>
> Changes in OpenGL Performer 3.2.1
>
> o Support for SGI ProPack 4 Service Pack 2. (SCR 936282)
> Performer now supports the SGI ProPack 4 Service Pack 2
> operating system release for Silicon Graphics Prism.
>
> o Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 7. (SCR 929852)
> Performer now supports the Visual Studio 7 (.NET)
> compiler on Windows.
>
> o Performer City demo now included. (SCR 929989)
> The modern "Performer City" demonstration application is
> now bundled with OpenGL Performer.
> IRIX: /usr/sbin/pfCity
> Linux: /usr/X11R6/bin/pfCity
> Windows: %PFROOT%/bin/pfCity
>
> o New "sgi-performer-clipdemos" rpm on Linux. (SCR 902282)
> Sample cliptexture data is now shipped with OpenGL Performer
> for Linux in the sgi-performer-clipdemos RPM file.
> See: /usr/share/Performer/data/clipdata
>
> o 914835: Missing pfStats tokens. Headers and handlers for
> PFFSTATSVAL_PFTIMES_{NUMFRAMES_COMPUTE, APPSTAMP_COMPUTE,
> PROC_COMPUTE, MISSES_COMPUTE, HIST_ALL_COMPUTE} were missing.
> This has been fixed.
>
> o 920517: GeoArray stride information missing in PFB output.
> Added support for saving/storing pfGeoArray pfVertexAttr
> information in cases where stride information != (size of
> data type * # elements needed to represent type).
>
> o 924143: Prism/IA64 - C++ samples crash in pfMemory::ref().
> Several samples and tools failed on 64-bit Prism systems
> with a stack trace leading to pfMemory::ref(). This was due
> to using 'new pfMemory' for array allocation. This has been
> fixed.
>
> o 924685: Manpages give error msg on SuSE Linux. "man pfNode"
> would give this error on SuSE Linux (32-bit and 64-bit):
> man: warning: /usr/man/man3/pfNode.3pf.c.gz: ignoring
> bogus filename
> man: warning: /usr/man/man3/pfNode.3pf.C++.gz: ignoring
> bogus filename
> No manual entry for pfNode.
> This has been fixed.
>
> o 927024: perfly powerwall modes require pipe or
> compositor list. perfly powerwall mode would hang if
> a pipe list was not specified. This has been fixed.
>
> o 927184: Onyx4: Fill stats cause perfly crash. Hangs
> and crashes could occur when enabling perfly 'Fill stats'
> on Onyx4. This has been fixed.
>
> o 928429: Performer does not reset attach address after
> usinit(). Arenas created by the user after calling pfConfig
> may fail with 'resource busy' errors. This has been fixed.
>
> o 929057: some pfdb header files missing on Windows.
> pfcsb.h, pfiv.h, pflsb.h, pfmedit.h, and pfptu.h were
> missing from <Performer/pfdb> on Windows. This has been
> fixed.
>
> o 929361: Performer 3.2 MP hangs on startup in pfGetTime().
> When first starting perfly in any multi-process mode on an
> SMP linux system (2.6 kernel), the process will hang just
> after displaying the "OpenGL Performer" text. This has been
> fixed.
>
> o 935755: Onyx4: performer town textures have black spots.
> This has been fixed.
>
> o 936906: GL_LUMINANCE problems with emulated cliptextures.
> Cliptexture files specifying a 16-bit luminance format (such
> as the hl.L16.ct sample) were not supported when using
> cliptexture emulation. This has been fixed.
>
> o 936963: Problems in automatic clipsize shrinking.
> Calculations to automatically shrink a given cliptexture if
> it is too large to fit in texture memory were incorrect when
> using cliptexture emulation. This has been fixed.
>
> o 937271: undefined GL_FUNC_REVERSE_SUBTRACT_EXT in bump
> sample. Several EXT_blend_minmax, EXT_blend_subtract, and
> EXT_blend_logic_op tokens were missing or used incorrectly.
> This has been fixed.
>
> o 937327: pfuSelectFBConfig.c not installed on linux. The
> new pfuSelectFBConfig.c file was missing. This has been fixed.
>
> o 937657: windows version can't find license. After
> installing Performer for the first time, the user may be
> prompted by FlexLM for the location of a license. This has
> been fixed.
>
> Problems fixed in OpenGL Performer 3.2 rev E
>
> OpenGL Performer 3.2 rev E was a platform-specific release
> for Silicon Graphics Prism only. All 3.2 rev E fixes are now
> included in the all-platform OpenGL Performer 3.2.1 release.
>
> o 909953: Performance drop with latest nvidia drivers. The
> default visual was 8x multisampled. This has been corrected.
>
> o 919800, 912651, 924251: Support for Cliptexture Emulation.
> Cliptexture emulation is now functional on Silicon Graphics
> Prism and Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision.
>
> o 914183: pfdBuildTopologyTravese() and
> pfTopo::buildTopology() failure. This has been corrected.
>
> o 921088: Support for SecondaryColor, FogCoords &
> VertexWeight. GeoArray support for these data types has
> been added.
>
> o 927186: perfly collision detections don't work in fly mode
> on Prism. This has been corrected.
>
> o 929514: pfGeoArrays don't handle odd strides. This has
> been corrected.
>
> o 930580: Perfly crash with large GeoArray pfb file. This
> has been corrected.
>
> o 930594: .gopt pseudoloader causes infinte loop. This has
> been corrected.
>
> o 931507: pfQuerySys calls in libpfdu slow file loading.
> This has been corrected. Note that applications containing
> repeated calls to pfQuerySys(PFQSYS_GL, &q) may also see
> delays.
>
> o 932929: 12-pipe support on Silicon Graphics Prism. OpenGL
> Performer now supports up to 12 pipes on Prism.
>
> o 932931: 4-compositor support on Silicon Graphics Prism.
> OpenGL Performer now supports up to 4 compositors on Prism.
>
> o 932934: Support for multiple X servers. OpenGL Performer
> now supports Silicon Graphics Prism systems configured with
> multiple X servers.
>
> o 932936: Multipipe GLSL. OpenGL Performer now supports
> OpenGL 2.0 GLSL in multi-pipe configurations
>
> o 933277: Non-power of 2 textures load incorrectly in
> Performer applications. NPOT textures are now partially
> supported.
>
> o 933387: perfly compositor options & pfCompositor man page.
> perfly's compositor options have been added to the perfly
> man page; and the missing pfCompositor man page is now
> included in the OpenGL Performer distribution.
>
> o 933727: Performer crashes when building topology for trim
> curves & shadow trim curves. This has been corrected.
>
> o 933777: Some transparent objects not rendered correctly on
> Silicon Graphics Prism. This has been corrected.
>
> o 934166: perfly GUI crashes. On Silicon Graphics Prism, if
> perfly is run in a multi-process mode with the GUI disabled,
> then the user presses F1 to bring up the GUI, the
> application crashes. This has been corrected.
>
> Problems fixed in OpenGL Performer 3.2 rev D
>
> OpenGL Performer 3.2 rev D was a platform-specific release
> for Silicon Graphics Prism only. All 3.2 rev D fixes are now
> included in the all-platform OpenGL Performer 3.2.1 release.
>
> o 925641: perfly crash on Prism depending on values assigned
> to PFSHAREDSIZE. Increased default PFSHAREDSIZE to 512MB.
>
> o 928974: pfGeoArray::tryVAOCache() is not multiprocess
> safe. This has been fixed.
>
> o 928975: Error in pfQueue::getNum(). This has been fixed.
>
> o 929848: Multipipe GLSL support in performer. GLSL support
> on Prism was only functional on a single pipe. This has
> been fixed.
>
> o 929850: OpenGL Multipipe interferes with OpenGL Performer.
> Performance may suffer if OpenGL Performer is used while the
> session is in OpenGL Multipipe mode. Prominent warnings
> have been added.
>
> o 929853: Additional Silicon Graphics Prism product line
> models are now recognized.
>
> o 929951: Performer fails when run under OMP. This has been
> fixed.
>
> o 931057: performer .gopt loader crash. Certain datasets
> could cause the .gopt Pseudo-Loader to crash. This has been
> fixed.
>
> o 931290: Perfly exits with segmentation fault. perfly would
> sometimes crash on systems with a hardware compositor
> attached. This has been fixed.
>
> o 932007: Use of hardware swap barriers now disabled by
> default with compositor. The use of swapbarrier
> functionality can sometimes cause a deadlock on Prism
> systems. Performer now disables this functionality by
> default, further changing the behavior from 3.2 rev C. To
> enable the previous behavior the user may set the
> environment variable PFCOMP_DO_SWAPBARRIERS to 1.
>
>
> Problems fixed in OpenGL Performer 3.2 rev C
>
> OpenGL Performer 3.2 rev C was a platform-specific release
> for Silicon Graphics Prism only. All 3.2 rev C fixes are now
> included in the all-platform OpenGL Performer 3.2.1 release.
>
> o 927225: Enable PF_SEMA_BEFORE_SWAP and PFU_LOAD_WIN_CURSOR
> workarounds for swapbarrier deadlock by default. Set either
> variable to 0 to revert to its pre-workaround behavior.
>
>
>
> --
> Allan Schaffer allan++at++sgi.com
> Engr. Dept. Manager, Visual Systems Group 1-650-933-2160
> Silicon Graphics http://www.sgi.com
>
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