[Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

[Timothy Arceri]

On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 01:06 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas.
> >
> >  - GLSL linking in NIR
> >      - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other expensive
> > things on GLSL IR
> >
> >  - SSA in the i965/fs backend, and an SSA-based register allocator
> >
> >  - Improve instruction scheduling in i965 (Nouveau has this on the
> > Wiki as well. Maybe potential for code reuse)
> 
> FWIW the nouveau thing would probably not involve a lot of reuse...
> the instructions are fairly different, and a lot of the nouveau
> project would have to be actually figuring out what _is_ a better
> schedule rather than just implementing one. [Also nouveau presently
> has *no* scheduling in place... so almost _anything_ would likely be
> an improvement.]
> 
> >
> >  - Maybe some OpenGL features (???), although lots of things are
> > already in progress, like tessellation and compute shaders and others
> > are probably on the critical path
> >
> > Are these good GSoC projects? Good -- being a combination of
> > characteristics like usefulness, feasibility, well defined, and
> > properly sized.
> >
> > Feel free to comment on them and to reply with your own. We can pick
> > some we like and put them on the wiki.
> 
> Another project that I think I mentioned on IRC is to go through the
> ES extension list and add in all the "easy" ones (i.e. ones that are
> already all or mostly implemented by desktop features), of which there
> are a _ton_ (probably like 20). I'm just talking about the OES/EXT/KHR
> ones, not the vendor ones. The majority would be modifying the various
> paths to allow the logic to be executed in ES contexts and to
> modify/add piglit tests verifying that the functionality can be used
> in ES. Here are a bunch of differences between what the nvidia blob
> exposes and mesa for the same hw:
> 
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~imirkin/glxinfo/glxinfo.html#p=es&b=version&g=NVIDIA%20GF1xx%20%28GeForce%20400%2C%20500%29&diff
> 
> Admittedly some of those are ES3.1-only, but far from all.

Just thought I'd point out there was an ES version of KHR_debug sent to
the list [1] but didn't get reviewed or committed. The piglit tests were
updated for ES and committed.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2014-September/067890.html

> 
>   -ilia
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