[Mesa-dev] [shader-db PATCH 1/5] run: create debug contexts

[Matt Turner]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2015 9:32 AM, "Matt Turner" <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > For Gallium-based drivers, this is required for receiving shader
>> > information
>> > via debug messages.
>> > ---
>>
>> But that's a Gallium bug, right?
>>
>> Ilia sent a similar patch, and in the discussion I think we decided
>> that what run.c is doing is perfectly fine.
>
> It's not a bug at all. Behavioural difference from i965 though. I was happy
> to let the matter drop as I was the sole user of it. Sounds like there are
> going to be more now, so this has to be addressed one way or the other.

Could you summarize what that difference is?

> My key requirement is that the solution we arrive at allows nouveau to only
> perform additional work for these messages if there's someone listening.

That sounds like reasonable.