[Mesa-dev] r600g: Add hooks for the LLVM backend

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Tom Stellard <tstellar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch series adds the necessary hooks, so that r600g can use the
> LLVM backend for graphics shaders.  To use the LLVM backend just add
> --enable-r600-llvm-compiler to your configure flags.
>
> The LLVM backend for graphics is still experimental, and it currently
> has to fallback to the default compiler in order to handle indirect
> addressing.  With that fallback it passes 5464/5641 piglit tests vs
> 5511/5641 with the default compiler.  Besides indirect addressing,
> the biggest thing missing from the backend is support for most of the
> texturing instructions.
>
> At the moment, I do not have any plans to improve support for graphics
> in the LLVM backend, but I wanted to get these patches merged into master
> to give people who are interested a chance to hack on it.

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>

Please note the missing case for ARUBA on patch 5/6.

Alex

>
> -Tom
>
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