cogl: new textures sould have GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER set to GL_LINEAR

The only way the user has to set the mipmap filters is through the
material/layer API. This API defaults to GL_LINEAR/GL_LINEAR for the max
and min filters. With the main use case of cogl being 2D interfaces, it
makes sense do default to GL_LINEAR for the min filter.

When creating new textures, we did not set any filter on them, using
OpenGL defaults': GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR for the min filter and
GL_LINEAR for the max filter. This will make the driver allocate memory
for the mipmap tree, memory that will not be used in the nominal case
(as the material API defaults to GL_LINEAR).

This patch tries to ensure that the min filter is set to GL_LINEAR
before any glTexImage*() call is done on the texture by setting the
filter when generating new OpenGL handles.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cogl/cogl-texture-driver.h b/cogl/cogl-texture-driver.h
index 6961659d..5f08cfba 100644
--- a/cogl/cogl-texture-driver.h
+++ b/cogl/cogl-texture-driver.h
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@
 #define __COGL_TEXTURE_DRIVER_H
 
 /*
+ * A very small wrapper around glGenTextures() that ensures we default to
+ * non-mipmap filters when creating textures. This is to save some memory as
+ * the driver will not allocate room for the mipmap tree.
+ */
+void
+_cogl_texture_driver_gen (GLenum   gl_target,
+                          GLsizei  n,
+                          GLuint  *textures);
+/*
  * Basically just a wrapper around glBindTexture, but the GLES2 backend
  * for example also wants to know about the internal format so it can
  * identify when alpha only textures are bound.