ARM_mali_shader_binary

GL_ARM_mali_shader_binary

Aske Simon Christensen, ARM
Erik Faye-Lund, ARM
Bruce Merry, ARM

Jan-Harald Fredriksen (jan-harald.fredriksen 'at' arm.com)

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Last Modified Date: January 5, 2011

OpenGL ES Extension #81

OpenGL ES 2.0 is required.

Written based on the wording of the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification.

This extension enables OpenGL ES 2.0 applications running on ARM
Mali graphics cores to use shaders precompiled with the Mali ESSL
shader compiler.

The shader objects loaded with this extension are equivalent to
shaders created from source, i.e. there are no additional
restrictions on which other shader objects they can be linked to,
nor on which OpenGL ES states they can be used with.

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Accepted by the <binaryFormat> parameter of ShaderBinary:

    MALI_SHADER_BINARY_ARM              0x8F60

At the end of section 2.10.2 (Loading Shader Binaries), add:

    "Any shader object passed to the ShaderBinary function with
    a <binaryFormat> of MALI_SHADER_BINARY_ARM will have its information
    log overwritten with information about the loading process."

An INVALID_VALUE error is generated if the <binary> parameter points
to an invalid binary stream that is either not appropriate for the
core version (or core revision) or produced by an incompatible or
outdated version of the Mali ESSL compiler or with inappropriate
compiler options.

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#1  08/27/2008   Erik Faye-Lund           First draft.
#2  09/04/2008   Aske Simon Christensen   Actual enum value.
                                          Some adjustments.
                                          Mention shader info log.
#3  09/05/2008   Aske Simon Christensen   Error and log behavior.
#4  15/07/2010   Bruce Merry              Change status.
                                          Change contact.
                                          Clarify that shader log is
                                          only overwritten when using
                                          MALI_SHADER_BINARY_FORMAT_ARM.
#5  05/01/2011   Jan-Harald Fredriksen    Fixed typos.