This is copy-pasted almost line by line from the FS back-end. The
only reason it cannot be implemented in terms of backend_reg is that
the backend_reg::nr field doesn't have the same meaning for uniforms
on both back-ends. It could be easily deduplicated by using a
template function.
Reviewed-by: Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral@igalia.com>
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