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

[Jakob Bornecrantz]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
> 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.

Would SOFTPIPE_FORCE_LLVM/SOFTPIPE_LLVM_VS work?

Cheers, Jakob.