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

Jakob Bornecrantz wallbraker at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 12:32:06 PST 2012


On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
> On 01/09/2012 12:51 PM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
>
> How about SOFTPIPE_USE_LLVM?

Sounds good, updated patch sent.

Cheers Jakob.


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