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

[Kenneth Graunke]

On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 06:45:42 PM Greg Fischer wrote:
> The GlassyMesa effort is ongoing despite the lack of recent activity. We
> continue to embrace LLVM as a basis for shader compilation in Mesa and
> elsewhere.
> 
> We agree that translating from LLVM back "up" to GLSL IR is problematic and
> that an architecture that supports LLVM backends would be desirable.
> 
> The current published code is a work-in-progress. We are currently working
> on tuning of compilation time and code generation quality, and some of that
> work will likely be appearing soon. There have also been recent
> improvements in glslang, the parser for this stack.
> 
> Packaging and ABI stability have not been an issue for us.

As far as I know, you haven't actually shipped your software in any Linux distribution yet, so a lack of packaging problems sort of goes without saying...

--Ken
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