[Mesa-dev] [RFC PATCH 00/16] A new IR for Mesa

[Roland Scheidegger]

Am 20.08.2014 20:45, schrieb Matt Turner:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Roland Scheidegger <sroland at vmware.com> wrote:
>> Am 20.08.2014 20:13, schrieb Kenneth Graunke:
>>> For example, Debian was stuck on Mesa 9.2.2 for 4 months (2013-12-08
>>> to 2014-03-22), and I was told this was because of LLVM versioning
>>> changes in the other drivers (primarily radeon, I believe, but
>>> probably also llvmpipe).
>> llvmpipe generally runs on pretty old llvm versions, though I didn't
>> check the specifics here...
> 
> There are also 49 instances of 'HAVE_LLVM [<>=]' to manage that :)
That is true, but note none of them really have anything to do with
building the IR or the like, it is all for jit, disassembler, etc.
because these things aren't doable with the stable c api.

Roland


> 
>> Couldn't build scripts download and use an appropriate llvm version
>> automatically if the one installed isn't sufficient? Though maybe the
>> idea is crazy I usually try to avoid to deal with such problems ;-).
> 
> I don't know the specifics of what you're suggesting, but I don't
> think I need to to say that that's disgusting.
>