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

[Rob Clark]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Connor Abbott <cwabbott0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Importing/forking the llvm IR code with a different symbol set, and
>> trying to not intentionally
>> be incompatible with their llvm.
>
> That sounds like a huge amount of work, possibly even more work than
> going it on our own because the LLVM project moves really quickly and
> we'd have to import all of the changes. Also, it seems pretty ugly and
> I'm sure distro maintainers would just looooooove a solution like that
> /s. Just look at the situation with Chromium and Fedora now (or at
> least last I checked).

but do the parts we want move quickly (and do we *want* them to move
quickly)?  A fast moving dependency is not really a good thing.

BR,
-R