Re: [5/8] WineD3D: Add infrastructure for faking driver versions

[Alexandre Julliard]

Stefan Dösinger  writes:
> +/* Certain applications(Steam) complain if we report an outdated driver version. In general,
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> - reporting a driver version is moot because we are not the Windows driver, and we have different
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> - bugs, features, etc.
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> - Some drivers(ATI, Nvidia Linux drivers) have a shared codebase with the Windows driver, so we're
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> - reading the Linux driver version and report it to the app. Some drivers(Apple drivers, Mesa) don't
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> - have the version match, so we overwrite the OpenGL driver version with a hardcoded one. Obviously
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> - the hardcoded driver version is outdated once a new Windows driver is released, so we'll have to
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> - keep them in sync manually.
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> - If a card is not found in this table, the gl driver version is reported
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> +struct driver_version_information {
> - WORD vendor;                        /* reported PCI card vendor ID               */
> - WORD card;                          /* reported PCI card device ID               */
> - BOOL loword_matches_apple;          /* Are Mac and Win driver versions matching? */
> - BOOL loword_matches_linux;          /* Are Lin and Win driver versions matching? */

The world is not limited to Mac and Linux, this sort of thing can't
scale.