<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Add software GL-renderer support to the headless backend" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83984#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Add software GL-renderer support to the headless backend" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83984">bug 83984</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:ppaalanen@gmail.com" title="Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>"> Pekka Paalanen</a> <pre>Right, I asked around on #dri-devel and looked at Mesa a bit. The null platform has indeed been replaced by surfaceless, which apparently doesn't support software renderers. So, it requires implementing sw support in platform_surfaceless.c in Mesa. platform_wayland.c recently just got sw support, so maybe there's something to peek on. Software rendering would be quite useful for CI testing, because the buildbot would not need a real DRM device and could easily be a virtual machine etc. However, I suppose if platform_surfaceless can gain sw support later, it would not be a wasted effort to use platform_surfaceless with a real driver on a render node now. Getting the gl-renderer into the test suite coverage would be quite a big improvement. So, it might make sense to finish <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Add rendernode support to headless-GL backend" href="show_bug.cgi?id=83985">bug #83985</a> first, reverting the bug dependency.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>