hey!
reading about opengl 4.3 and the new etc2 compression, i came over
this article again, which says that intel has finally enabled etc(1) texture compression in their driver.
following the comments, there's a good chance it could be enabled in radeon/nouveau, too.
maybe we can have much better performance on mesa drivers (when used out of the box) when mg would fall back to etc if there's no s3tc.
don't know how much work it is to implent and if anyone thinks it worth the work, just an idea
edit: just found
this and will have a look whether i can implent it
edit2: while having had some fun with opengl and the mg sources, i just found out that the current hardware has no hardware support for etc1, so what mesa actually does is to wrap it back to RGBA. so there's no point in implenting it in mg
