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

[Henri Verbeet]

On 20 August 2014 20:13, Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> wrote:
> I've also heard stories from friends of mine who use radeonsi that they couldn't get new GL features or compiler fixes unless they upgrade both Mesa /and/ LLVM, and that LLVM was usually either not released or not available in their distribution for a few months.
>
For whatever it's worth, I have been avoiding radeonsi in part because
of the LLVM dependency. Some of the other issues already mentioned
aside, I also think it makes it just painful to do bisects over
moderate/longer periods of time. I'm sure AMD carefully considered the
tradeoff, and that it's worth it for them, but purely as a
user/downstream I'd say using LLVM for the radeonsi compiler was a
mistake.