[Mesa-dev] Request for information on Radeon

[Chris Forbes]

The GSoC project does not include any gallium plumbing, or your
backends. It might be possible to take Fabian's frontend code and
start building your pieces against it, but there might be some changes
which would force you to do rework.


-- Chris

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Aditya Avinash <adityaavinash1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can I join them? I have good knowledge on Tessellation using proprietary
>>> drivers.
>>
>> I don't think Summer of Code allows people to work together on the
>> same project. Then again, I don't know that anyone has heard from
>> Fabian (Cc'd) since he sent some piglit tests at the end of March. His
>> github activity seems to have stopped around the same time. Since the
>> coding start date was May 19th, I'm a bit concerned.
>>
>> GSoC's midterm date is June 27th, less than three weeks away. It's an
>> awkward situation in which we want to let Fabian do the project he was
>> accepted for, but if we can't get in contact with him we don't want to
>> prevent others from making progress. Let's see if we hear something
>> from him soon.
>>
>>> I don't know where to start. Can you provide me some documentation on it?
>>
>> Presumably you want to implement tessellation for Radeon hardware?
>> There's a lot of common infrastructure needed first (the GLSL compiler
>> lives in src/glsl).
>
> What was the scope of the GSoC? Even if GLSL + mesa/core supports it,
> a bunch of stuff would need to be piped through to gallium, for
> nouveau and radeon to support it. (And the nvc0 driver already has a
> bunch of provisional support for it, waiting for the gallium
> interfaces to materialize.)
>
>>
>> If you want to become involved with Mesa development, you should join
>> the #dri-devel IRC channel on Freenode (and #nouveau, #radeon,
>> #intel-gfx, depending on your hardware).
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