[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/3] Softpipe draw de-LLVM-fication.

[Brian Paul]

On 01/09/2012 11:28 AM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> So it turns out that softpipe uses LLVM in the draw module
> since it has no way of telling draw not to use it. This patch
> series fixes that. Also makes the draw initialization fail
> if draw can't initialize LLVM in the normal case.
>
> Cheers, Jakob.
>
> Jakob Bornecrantz (3):
>    draw: Make it possible to create a llvm free context
>    draw: Fail if we fail to enable llvm when asked for it
>    softpipe: Don't use llvm in draw
>
>   src/gallium/auxiliary/draw/draw_context.c |   64 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
>   src/gallium/auxiliary/draw/draw_context.h |    2 +
>   src/gallium/drivers/softpipe/sp_context.c |    2 +-
>   3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>

I guess I'd like a way to keep using LLVM with softpipe in some 
circumstances (with a config/env var option).  I sometimes debug 
things using softpipe and losing LLVM vertex processing would be a 
slow-down in some cases.

-Brian