[Mesa-dev] new i965g pipe driver for Intel GEN6 (and later)

[Chia-I Wu]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Stéphane Marchesin
<stephane.marchesin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Roland Scheidegger <sroland at vmware.com> wrote:
>> This is interesting, personally I'm fine with getting this merged.
>> That said, there was a i965g driver upstream before (though it never
>> worked right IIRC and was probably gen4 or maybe gen5 too only due to
>> its age), the problem is unless you manage to get the intel guys
>> interested you'll always end up with something which just isn't very
>> useful to most people, as you will always lag behind the non-gallium
>> driver in features, performance and conformance (with the primary
>> benefit of supporting other state trackers but most folks are just happy
>> with GL variants).
>
> Well, if you focus on one family, you can actually do something
> useful. For example i915g gives me GL 2.1 on pineview and has much
> higher vertex performance than the classic driver. The maintenance on
> it is also extremely low. So long-term, I think a i965g driver is a
> good thing to have in the tree for that reason. You could even rename
> it "snbg" or something, to point out that it's gen6 only.
I plan to support other GENs (depending on which of them I own or have
access to).  But it may be a good idea to rename it if i965g is
confusing.

The name of the DRI module could not be changed though.

> Stéphane
>
>
>> But if there's no interest we can always nuke it (again) in the future I
>> suppose.
>> btw is there a specific reason why it's gen6+ only? I'm just curious as
>> I thought that despite some differences they still could share quite
>> some code.
>>
>> Roland
>>
>> Am 12.12.2012 23:41, schrieb Chia-I Wu:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I've been working on i965g, a new pipe driver for Intel GEN6 (and
>>> later), for a while now.  I would like to know if there is any
>>> interest in it and if it can be merged upstream.  The code is
>>> currently available here
>>>
>>>   https://github.com/olvaffe/mesa/tree/i965g
>>>
>>> The project was started for my own fun and for self-learning.  It was
>>> later sponsored by LunarG.  While it is still new, it does work for
>>> many of mesa-demos.  Right now it passes 6884 of 7547 piglit
>>> quick-driver.tests.  I also tried it with gnome-shell, OpenArena, and
>>> Nexuiz, and they all seem to work.
>>>
>>> The driver is written from scratch.  However, it follows classic i965
>>> driver for many of the design decisions.  It comes with its own toy
>>> compiler to translate TGSI tokens to GEN instructions.  The compiler
>>> still lacks several functions (register spilling and most TGSI
>>> indirections), but more importantly, almost no optimization is
>>> performed.  It thus generates much worse code comparing to that
>>> generated by classic i965.
>>>
>>> I rebased the code tonight and cleaned up the history.  The branch now
>>> has 24  new commits on top of master
>>>
>>>       winsys/intel: new winsys for intel
>>>       i965g: new pipe driver for Intel GEN6+
>>>       i965g: add debug flags settable through I965_DEBUG
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe_screen param and fence functions
>>>       i965g: add functions to translate pipe enums to HW enums
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe screen format functions
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe screen resource functions
>>>       i965g: add command parser
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe context flush function
>>>       i965g: add functions to manage shaders
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe context state functions
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe context blit functions
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe context transfer functions
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe context query functions
>>>       i965g: add GEN6 GPE
>>>       i965g: add GEN6 3D context
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe context 3D functions
>>>       i965g: add support for timer/occlusion/primitive queries
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe context video functions
>>>       i965g: hook up pipe context GPGPU functions
>>>       i965g: add a toy shader compiler
>>>       i965g: compile VS and FS with the toy compiler
>>>       i965g: support the new driver in various targets
>>>       i965g: add to --with-gallium-drivers
>>>
>>> It is quite self-contained.  If preferred, I can send the patches to the list.
>>>
>>> Oh, and my account on fdo is disabled because of my own mistake[1].  I
>>> contacted some of the developers in the thread but did not get any
>>> response.  Could anyone help me with that, or how do I have it
>>> re-enabled?
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2012-July/023901.html
>>>
>>
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