[Mesa-dev] [RFC PATCH 00/16] A new IR for Mesa

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Roland Scheidegger <sroland at vmware.com> wrote:
> Am 20.08.2014 20:13, schrieb Kenneth Graunke:
>> For example, Debian was stuck on Mesa 9.2.2 for 4 months (2013-12-08
>> to 2014-03-22), and I was told this was because of LLVM versioning
>> changes in the other drivers (primarily radeon, I believe, but
>> probably also llvmpipe).
> llvmpipe generally runs on pretty old llvm versions, though I didn't
> check the specifics here...

There are also 49 instances of 'HAVE_LLVM [<>=]' to manage that :)

> Couldn't build scripts download and use an appropriate llvm version
> automatically if the one installed isn't sufficient? Though maybe the
> idea is crazy I usually try to avoid to deal with such problems ;-).

I don't know the specifics of what you're suggesting, but I don't
think I need to to say that that's disgusting.