TinyGL: FBO, Shaders and futur improvements
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    Cool_amigaN
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    Quake 2, Quake 3, Warzone, all recent BeWorld's SDL2 ports (Ottomatc, nanosaur 2 etc), Freespace, AvP, Robin Hood (btw, indeed it seems to run faster to me too) work perfectly. However, with GLQuake, I get the follwoing error: Starting Quake...
    I_Error: Hunk_Alloc: failed on 1544814608 bytes
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    I can't recall whether this was happening in the past with some versions of MorphOS/TinyGL and then it stopped working.

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    Cool_amigaN wrote:
    However, with GLQuake, I get the follwoing error: Starting Quake...
    I_Error: Hunk_Alloc: failed on 1544814608 bytes
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    I can't recall whether this was happening in the past with some versions of MorphOS/TinyGL and then it stopped working.


    You can easily test if it's caused by the TinyGL update by copying in MorphOS/Libs/tinygl.library, MorphOS/Libs/tinygl/r200.library and MorphOS/Libs/tinygl/r300.library from a MorphOS 3.17 ISO to your sys: partition, rebooting and trying again. It'd help me a lot to get this confirmation before I try to reproduce it myself. Also please create a new temporary Quake folder with just the Quake binary, id1/pak0.pak and id1/pak1.pak present, to make sure it's not triggered by some installed mod.

    If it turns out that it does work with the files from MorphOS 3.17, then please link me to the version of GLQuake you're using, as there are many of them around :)
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    Yeap Mark, indeed it was some of my mods causing the issue. Vanilla Quake paks work flawless (with stock MorphOS 3.17 and your latest commits). Is there anything in particular you would like to test? Think I might have every game sitting on my HD :P
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    It's not really to push, just out of curiosity. Any news about this?
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    tolkien wrote:
    It's not really to push, just out of curiosity. Any news about this?



    Sorry for the quiet as of late. I've been working on the R600 (and R700, Evergreen and Northern Islands) driver over the past few weeks, mostly focusing on writing the shader compiler for it. The shader compiler seems to be in a fairly good shape right now (more on that in the next paragraphs, for those interested), so my focus will shift to getting all the other parts required to make the driver work done. These things are mainly basic hardware setup, state handling, texture handling and so on. This means that I unfortunately am still not at a place where the driver can render even the simplest thing, but once I do get there, there will be very rapid progress to a fully functional driver. I am hoping to have the R600 driver run its first simple apps next week, although I can make no promise that that's when it'll happen.

    The following can be skipped for those who are not interested in the technical side of the driver development.

    Now how can I know the shader compiler is in a good shape if I can't run it yet? Well, graphics hardware in general, and certainly Radeons specifically, there's really not much you can do in terms of getting any sort of debug info out of the hardware. I write the driver, I try it and I get basically one of 4 possible outcomes:

    1) There's a software crash.
    2) Nothing happens.
    3) The hardware crashes, but the OS keeps running.
    4) The hardware completely locks up the entire system.

    1 is the easiest to debug, since it's almost certainly a software problem. The other 3 are much more difficult to debug, although each failure mode does give a hint as to what's going on. However, a bug in the shader compiler can cause any of the failure modes labelled 2-4 above, with no or little additional info available to help me figure out why it's failing. Simultaneously pretty much any other mistake in the Radeon state setup can also result in any of the same 3 failure modes, so it's really hard to tell what's going on at a first glance when there is a problem.

    When it comes to debugging shaders, there's no mechanism for stepping through a compiled shader program to see what's happening and when. There's no way to even get any sort of run time information out of there, so that makes debugging it very much a trial and error thing, which is very time consuming.

    So one thing I'm doing to reduce the amount of time I have to spend fumbling around in the dark is that not only do I write the shader compiler, I also write a disassembler for the shader binary that gets uploaded to the Radeon hardware for execution. So while writing the driver, I first make it compile whatever program is passed to it, and then immediately afterwards it disassembles what it has just compiled. It then dumps all this data (the original shader source, all the intermediate compiler states after parsing, optimising, etc and the disassembled program) for me in the debug log. I then go through everything manually, comparing it to the original shader source passed to the driver to make sure the final compiled program actually matches what the source code does.

    Doing it this way is a bit more work up front, but it saves me time in the end, as it helps me catch a lot of simple mistakes that happen while initially writing the compiler, and it helps me confirm that what the compiler does is actually correct. It is also why I can state - without having actually run any shader binary produced by the compiler - that the compiler is in a fairly good shape currently.

    Another interesting thing about R600 and newer hardware is that the part of the hardware that fetches vertex data from memory and presents it to the vertex shader for processing, which was fixed-function hardware in previous Radeons is now entirely, 100% a shader on its own. That means that just to have the hardware fetch vertex data from memory, the driver has to generate a shader to instruct the Radeon how to do so.
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    April Fools' Day is not the best day for the announcements :)
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    zukow wrote:
    April Fools' Day is not the best day for the announcements :)


    Haha :) This is very specifically not an announcement, though ;) But yeah, no April Fool here.
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    Thanks for the detailed info and the hard work mate!
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    The release notes unfortunately don't make it clear which state of the TinyGL project is included in MorphOS 3.18. So I am asking here. ;-)

    I suppose it's TinyGL-Update-2022-12-27.lha? Or is it anything beyond that?
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    ernsteiswuerfel schrieb:
    The release notes unfortunately don't make it clear which state of the TinyGL project is included in MorphOS 3.18. So I am asking here. ;-)

    I suppose it's TinyGL-Update-2022-12-27.lha? Or is it anything beyond that?


    It is a snapshot of what the MorphOS betatesters got after the 2022-12-27 TinyGL update. It contains a few more fixes which only bigfoot has all the details for.
    There is no major changes or any new milestones to be found in there AFAICT and I guess he will prepare a new update once he considers it to be worth it and his time permits.
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    @cyfm: Thanks, that's what I wanted to know!
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    @bigfoot

    I was checking in to see if you had an update of the status of the drivers?
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    hello,

    i'm trying the improved TinyGL on MorphOS 3.18 + latest SDK. (powerbook with radeon 9600 pro)
    for me the framebuffer object extension is not available. could anyone use it?
    i tried with the latest powersdl, and with the latest sdl2, but i see opengl 1.2 context only, and no framebuffer object extension. i tried the tglEnableNewExtensions() function too, but the app hangs with it.

    any advise appreciated.
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    anchor wrote:
    ... the framebuffer object extension is not available.


    If the extension isn't advertised, it just mean that it is, well... not (yet) available.

    This extension will probably be implemented at a later time.
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    There's some progress on the R600 driver front: It actually functions as a driver now and can run OpenGL applications. While most games and applications still misrender to varying degrees, some of the simpler things now work as expected. For example the Bump2D example from the TinyGL update works correctly:

    Bump2D running on a Radeon HD 5450.
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    Great work, thanks!!
    I am looking forward to great benchmark competition with my computers with new drivers!
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    sailor wrote:
    Great work, thanks!!
    I am looking forward to great benchmark competition with my computers with new drivers!


    Ah, the first release(s) of the driver will probably be quite slow. I'm first focusing on getting things working correctly, and then I'll optimise things. But I'll very likely make a public release or three between those two steps.
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  • »25.06.23 - 20:37
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    And here is Fortis running on a Radeon HD 5450.
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    bigfoot wrote:
    Ah, the first release(s) of the driver will probably be quite slow. I'm first focusing on getting things working correctly, and then I'll optimise things. But I'll very likely make a public release or three between those two steps.


    Oh, it doesn't matter. In any case R600 3D drivers will be faster for sure ;-)
    And it will also serve for me as excuse to finally try PCIe cards on Pegasos 2, AGP-PCI adapter still waiting...
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    bigfoot schrieb:
    And here is Fortis running on a Radeon HD 5450.


    Nice! :-o
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  • »26.06.23 - 09:26
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    I'm making steady progress on the R600 driver still. The shader compiler is now close to being complete, mainly missing support for a few esoteric opcodes and a bit of code to handle some hardware limitations.

    The bad news is that there still seem to be some smaller issues preventing most things from running correctly. For example things like Quake 3 and Cro-Mag Rally seem to run correctly except for some smaller graphical glitches related to textures that I still need to track down. It'll likely take at least till next week before I get those bugs squashed.

    There's also an issue where the hardware crashes sometimes, which is another thing I need to track down. I'm not sure how long that will take, as I don't know if it's a hardware or a software bug, or a combination of the two.

    There's also some features that I still need to implement, such as stencil support, point and line drawing, user clip planes, face culling, polygon offset and cube maps. I've got no ETA on these features, but most of them aren't very complex to add, so it won't be too long.

    Then finally I'm still working solely on the Radeon HD 5450. Everything else in the Evergreen and Northern Islands series (Radeon HD 5xxx and Radeon HD 6xxx) should work without issues with the same code that runs the Radeon HD 5450, but I still need to test it to make sure. Then there's R600 and R700, the Radeon HD 2000, 3000 and 4000 series, which I did also add code for, but which haven't been tested yet and will no doubt need some debugging to work as well.

    Lastly, here's a screenshot of Shader Test running on the Radeon HD 5450 after I fixed support for fragment killing/discarding in pixel shaders today.
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    Nice! As soon as the next beta is out I'll try it on my HD4550 which should be a nice upgrade to my X1300. :-)
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  • »06.07.23 - 19:14
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    Today I added stencil support, support for face culling and I added code to shader compiler to handle a hardware limitation. And ShaderBoy is now (mostly) working on the Radeon HD 5450. The plasma preset still fails, but everything else seems to work right.
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  • »07.07.23 - 11:05
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    I fixed one issue related to textures that fixes a couple of the apps I'm testing with. Notably Foobillard now works on the Radeon HD 5450. Also Most of Quake 3 now works on the Radeon HD 5450, with the exception that the mirror and the portal on the introduction level don't work right due to missing support for user clip planes. The recently released Morphiller demo now also runs on the Radeon HD 5450, except the final report screen that seems to misrender a bit.
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